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Using RSS Feeds for an external corporate site
by Sukhdev Singh 05 Apr '08

05 Apr '08

Dear Friends, I am forwarding one of my emails to another forum. Later on I thought that I should also share it with you all. [I have tried to protect the privacy of the person asking the question] My answer provide a solution on how sites can be enhanced by aggregating external content without any additional cost or time (after setup). The same solution can be implemented on Library Website of your own Institution. Hope it helps. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sukhdev Singh <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:35 AM Subject: Re: [IAMI Gen] RSS Feeds for an external corporate site What you are aiming at goes beyond just RSS Feeds. You will need one more step. Let me try to explain you the steps you will require and examples of my experiments in MASHUP. Step 1. Identifying the Resources: This is actually what you have asked for in your mail. I would suggest you do the following (in that order) a) - PubMed Search Strategy The best resource is PubMed <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/>. However it is a huge database. You will have to design a Search Strategy to get latest and relevant references from PubMed. Once you are satisfied, create a feed as explained in my tutorial (slides). This requires professional skills, I could have created a search strategy for you, unfortunately I am busy for next week. [I will be Chairing a session on "The Cochrane Library and EBM Resources" on 9th April 2008 at CMC Vellore for the 2nd South Asian Regional Symposium on Evidence Based Health Care, 'Investing in Evidence for Better Health - http://www.cochrane-sacn.org/symposium2008/index.asp ] b) - Look for core online Journals Online journals (even the paid ones ) allow TOC of their issues pulled through RSS. Open Access journals like those from BioMed Central <http://www.biomedcentral.com/> would be more useful as full text of their issues can be read immediately. Further you may take help of Directory of Open Access Journals <http://doaj.org> Look for the URLs of their RSS Feeds. There are tools (like Dapper) which can create feeds even for Non-RSS enabled sites. But to start with, it is better to go with only ready-made feeds. c) - Look for Blogs, forums, Wikis etc. If you need more, then you can look for Blogs, Forums and Wikis. Most of them provides RSS feeds. Step 2. You need to subscribe to all the feeds mentioned in above steps. Google Reader is one of the many available services. If you like, you can go for advance tricks for filtering useful content from your aggregation of feeds. Yahoo Pipes is one such tool (It is difficult to learn it). Once you are satisfied move to next step. Step 3. Well this I had touched in my slides but could not explain properly. Reading RSS is different from making them available publicly. This is sort of "MASHUP". There are abundant tools are available for doing it. The simple ones are the likes of SuprGlu / NetVibes. (Google Reader can also do it in limited manner). But these look unprofessional as you won't like their logos etc. You can also create Widgets and add to you site. Tools like feeddigest will allow to do that but they are free only upto a limit. You can also have a blog on blogger and insert you feeds easily (See my experiment mentioned below). I had done few experiments which are still live (and does not cost time or money to me). One is on SuprGlu - http://sukhi.suprglu.com/ . It picks up references from PubMed (slides are included in my presentation) for Medical Informatics in Indian Context. However, you will notice the service (SuprGlu) does some sort of advertisement. Another one uses Yahoo Pipes to filter content. It give only those content which has free full text on the topic - "Medical Informatics". The feed is displayed using a Blog - http://informaticsbits.blogspot.com/ from blogger.com I would be glad to help you in your project but only after I return from CMC (Medical College) Vellore. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:35 PM, clh < -- @gmail.com> wrote: > > What types of RSS Feeds would you recommend for a corporate external/ > publice site of a physician group practice management company? > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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UNESCO helps preserve Indian documentary heritage
by Mailing List Admin 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:46:12 +0100 (BST) From: Puna Das <puna_05(a)yahoo.co.in> UNESCO helps preserve Indian documentary heritage 04-04-2008 (New Delhi) A UNESCO-supported project �Preservation and Conservation of Rare Documents of St. Xavier�s College Library, Kolkata� has recently been completed. Several thousands of pages of rare documents from the College library have been recovered, preserved and digitised. St. Xavier�s College was established in 1860. It is now one of the oldest colleges in the South Asian sub-region. The College library holds a golden treasury of very old printed documents, providing from donations of books by the provincial governments and European missionaries in the last century. The documentary collection includes philosophical thoughts of eminent thinkers of eighteenth century, philosophy of sciences, historical accounts, religious scriptures, etc. Unfortunately, this heritage is continuously decaying towards extinction, which would be an enormous cultural loss for India. Selected rare documents of the College library have been recovered, preserved and digitised under this collaborative project. Physical preservation was carried out for 31 614 pages from 52 volumes of books through fumigation, de-acidification and tissue lamination processes. 24 686 pages from 51 volumes of rare books and 99 rare paintings were digitally preserved on DVD-ROMs and intranet server. An exhibition of rare documents took place in March 2008 in the College premises. The oldest article among the exhibited pieces was published in 1632. Digitised collection of rare paintings of St. Xavier�s College, Kolkata: http://picasaweb.google.com/bidyarthi.bhaswati/RarePaintingsOfStXavierSColl… Source: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=26384&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECT… Thanking You Yours Sincerely Anup Kumar Das New Delhi

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Bidding Farewell to Mr.CHIKKAMALLAIAH-Librarian-IIMB
by Suresh Horakeri 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Dear professionals, Today I came to know that Mr Chikkamallaiah, Librarian, IIMB was retired from the service on 31st March 2008 & his Farewell party to be held on Friday,4th April 2008 at IIMB-Library.Time: 11.00am Venue: Library-IIMB. Mr Chikkamallaiah, Librarian, IIMB has been a great source of inspiration to the young professionals community, a soft spoken gentleman and great Librarian. Naturally every body has to reach superannuation but professional bodies/ organization such as ILA, IASLIC, KALA, SIS and others should make use of his rich experience for the betterment of the profession and development of the library field. I wish him and his family good health, wealth and more peaceful life a head. Thanks, Regards, Horakeri Suresh D Horakeri BSc, MLISc,PGDLAN, Asst Librarian, BVB College of Engg & Tech, Hubli-31, Ph: 9341610603 (R) (0836) 2378422 2378422 (O) Emails ; sdhorakeri(a)yahoo.co.in horakeri(a)bvb.edu http://www.connotea.org/user/suresh1973 http://works.bepress.com/suresh_dh/ http://www.prajavani.net/jun192006/5758220060619.php ----- Original Message ---- From: "kk_suresh@blr..amrita.edu" <kk_suresh(a)blr.amrita.edu> To: lis-forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Cc: mat(a)IIMB.ERNET.IN; lis-forum-owner(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in Sent: Wednesday, 2 April, 2008 8:31:43 PM Subject: [LIS-Forum] Bidding Farewell to Mr..CHIKKAMALLAIAH-Librarian-IIMB Dear Professionals, Sub: Bidding Farewell to Mr.CHIKKAMALLAIAH-Librarian-IIMB. ********** He served sincerely with all his dedication, more than Three decades as a Librarian in Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore.He has been associated with the Institute from the time of its inception. In many ways, Mr. Chikkamallaiah has been instrumental in establishing and developing IIMB Library and also he is the guiding force for all young library professionals in many ways. He was retired from the service on 31st March 2008 & his Farewell party to be held on Friday,4th April 2008 at IIMB-Library. Time: 11.00am Venue: Library-IIMB Those who are interested to attend the farewell function, kindly contact Mr.Mathias S.A. IIMB-Library Mobile:9844584127 Mr.KK Suresh Librarian Amrita School of Engineering Bangalore. Mobile:9448519116 Thanking you, Regards KK Suresh Librarian Amrita School of Engineering Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Deemed University Sarjapura Road Bangalore - 560 035 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum 5, 50, 500, 5000 - Store N number of mails in your inbox. Go to http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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National Workshop report
by lata＠iihmr.org 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

The recently held National Workshop report can be downloaded from the follwoing link. http://autolib-india.net/salis/IIHR.pdf ===================================== LATA SURESH Librarian, Organising Secretary, Workshop Institute of Health Management Reserach 1, Prabhu Dayal MArg Sanganer Airport Jaipur - 302033 Rajasthan INDIA Phone: +91-141-2791431-34 ext. 328 Fax : +91-141-2792138 URL : http://www.iihmr.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[lis-forum] another alternative to RSS feed
by bhawna vashishtha 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Dear Friends This is the first time i am writing in this forum. I have noticed that when we try to subscribe any RSS Feed, on many websites we may have an option for RSS Feed or ATOM Feed, as ATOM Feed are becoming a widely used alternative. RSS and ATOM are two different types of XML Feed. XML is the underlying language used to provide the feed. So, for a librarian both the options are same as we are more concerned about the latest information we are getting by subscribing to any feed. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Bidding Farewell to Mr.CHIKKAMALLAIAH-Librarian-IIMB
by kk_suresh＠blr.amrita.edu 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Dear Professionals, Sub: Bidding Farewell to Mr.CHIKKAMALLAIAH-Librarian-IIMB. ********** He served sincerely with all his dedication, more than Three decades as a Librarian in Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore.He has been associated with the Institute from the time of its inception. In many ways, Mr. Chikkamallaiah has been instrumental in establishing and developing IIMB Library and also he is the guiding force for all young library professionals in many ways. He was retired from the service on 31st March 2008 & his Farewell party to be held on Friday,4th April 2008 at IIMB-Library. Time: 11.00am Venue: Library-IIMB Those who are interested to attend the farewell function, kindly contact Mr.Mathias S.A. IIMB-Library Mobile:9844584127 Mr.KK Suresh Librarian Amrita School of Engineering Bangalore. Mobile:9448519116 Thanking you, Regards KK Suresh Librarian Amrita School of Engineering Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Deemed University Sarjapura Road Bangalore - 560 035 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Seeking discussion on problems with a balance BOOK SELECTION POLICY & PROCEDURE
by Mailing List Admin 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 12:23:15 +0530 From: T. Shahab <tshahab(a)jamiahamdard.ac.in> Dear Memberss, Through the popular LIS-Forum for exchanging professional ideas, I wish to engage the valuable attention of the practicing librarians to the ever increasing problem of breach in librarians' domain by faculty members in light of the shrinking role of librarians in determining the policy and procedures involving many of the library activities, particularly the collection development through BOOK SELECTION. In some libraries that I know, the Acquisition Dept. has been turned into just like a clearance house; the librarian is not consulted on matters of Book selection; even the budgeted amount under the Central library has to be used on the authorization of the Vice-chancellor or one of his/ her nominees. Book suppliers will directly contact the faculty members get the books recommended and pass-on the recommended lists to the Acquisition Dept. for necessary followups. Some times, two or more departments may recommend the same title, and the librarian being unaware of the reason, has only to meekly put his/her signature. Even in matters of acquiring multiple copies of the already purchased books (on students' demand), the hands of a librarian is bound. A Librarian being in close touch with the students is always approached by them with their requests on different library related matters, but the librarian is most of the cases is unable to make any firm committment for a facility or extension of services to the students. This change in power dynamics in Universities is making the job of a librarian a very unsavoury one; most librarians are feeling dejected and professionally emasculated. Please, take the above write-up as a point of discussion. Feel free to express your considered opinion on this matter of great importance. Regards. Dr. T. SHAHAB

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The National Library of Australia launches Library Labs
by Mailing List Admin 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 10:22:28 +0530 From: DINESH SIDDAIAH <dinesh.ncet(a)gmail.com> Dear Friends, The National Library of Australia (http://www.nla.gov.au) has been doing a great deal of work toward the design and development of a library automation infrastructure following the service oriented architecture. These efforts show great promise in the creation of a number of key library automation components available as open source software.In recent days, NLA has launched a wiki called Library Labs with lots of information about their work. With regards, Dinesh K S

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Google Reader/ RSS Feed
by Rajan 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Dear Mr Singh, Your presentation on RSS Feed is a window to an easier and deeper use of internet to which most of the users should be exposed to as the growth of new features in the post Google era is so amazing and useful for the information seekers. Unfortunately most of the librarians remain ignorant of such features of internet and hence cannot train their users on the easy ways to gather information from the sites in the so dynamic internet. We expect similar internet use familiarization presentations on similar areas of easier web use from Mr Singh and others. Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India Original Message: Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 16:22:35 +0530 From: "Sukhdev Singh" <esukhdev(a)gmail.com> Subject: [LIS-Forum] Surviving the Web Explosion: Keeping in touch with RSS Dear Friends, For last two years I have been teaching Doctors and Medical Librarians in using RSS Feeds for keeping in touch with latest information on the web. Today I am sharing my slides on it at the following link. http://snipr.com/23ck1 This slide show tells why RSS is better way for alerting us on latest information being posted on web on particular area of interest. I tried to explain what all is required for this new method. I took an example on how to subscribe for feeds on - News (from NDTV.COM) Blogs (Puter Suber's Blog); Open Access Repository (OpenMED@NIC - http://openmed.nic.in ) and from a Database (PubMed). At the end I have given an example to create "MASHUP" from RSS Feeds. Hope it would be of your interest. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Latest Open Access Book by Mr. Anup Kumar Das has been Archived at OpenMED@NIC
by Sukhdev Singh 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

We would like to thank Mr. Anup Kumar Das for archiving his following book on 'Open Access' in OpenMED@NIC - http://openmed.nic.in . It is contained in a single PDF of around 12 MB File size. Das, Anup Kumar (2008) Open Access to Knowledge and Information: Scholarly Literature and Digital Library Initiatives – the South Asian Scenario. UNESCO, New Delhi, India. ISBN 9788189218218 http://openmed.nic.in/2789/ Thanks Mr Das. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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