Dear Professionals, As Mr. Vyasamoorthy rightly said about RSS reader that "...It is one easy way of creating current awareness service" I would like to share some more information on the same. HOW RSS READER WORKS The RSS reader keeps track of new additions in a Web site (only RSS specification compliant) of your interest. It notifies you about the latest changes in your chosen site. These websites can be of such kind in which information are being added periodically like news sites, mailing lists, weblogs, etc... To know more about RSS visit http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/ http://www.mnot.net/rss/tutorial/ AVAILABLE OPEN SOURCE RSS READER SOFTWARE (I used...) Software name: FeedReader (avilable at http://sourceforge.net/projects/feedreader http://sourceforge.net/projects/feedreader ) Features Supports all major syndication formats: RSS 0.9, 0.91, 0.92, 1.00, 2.0 plus Dublin core and Slashback extensions Pre-configured with hundred of quality feeds from leading syndicators such as NewsIsFree and Moreover Alerts about incoming feeds on taskbar Caches headlines for offline viewing Supports proxies Allows one-click subscription of Radio Userland and AmphetaDesk feeds Search support Multilanguage support New in version 2.6: OPML import and export. Requirements Windows 95 or newer Internet Explorer 4.0 or newer Download & explore more about the software. Best wishes -- Nabonita Guha DRTC Bangalore ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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It may also be also of interest to mention that RSS 1.0 published last year allows a ContextObject-the data structure at the heart of the new OpenURL Framework that is being developed by ANSI/NISO as information statdard Z39.88-2004.
By year 2006, the growth rate in application-generated RSS data to exeed human produced RSS content by atleast a factor of 0.8 probability. Some of the software packages using email messages for notifications will be replaced by RSS, because of simpler and more efficient from the perspective of sender and receiver. Publishers are now using RSS for content distribution to users. hence in future we should now use checkpoints for selectimg any software and vendors for compliance of RSS feed like Z39.50, OAI-PMH, etc.
Good luck.
P K Upadhyay NIC Library
Dear Friends
You may be interested in the following Google feature:
http://www.google.com/reader/things/intro
This page helps you search for news items on chosen keywords and thereafter subscribe to RSS feeds from such result pages. Please explore
It is one easy way of creating current awareness service.
Vyasamoorthy, P
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