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University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal) Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln March

2009 RSS Applications in Libraries and Information Centres Sadanand Bansode University of Pune, India, sadanand@unipune.

ernet.in N.B. Dahibhate National Chemical Laboratory, India, [email protected] Kishore Ingale Tata Consultancy Services, India, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac Part of the Library and Information Science Commons, and the Other Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Bansode, Sadanand;

Dahibhate, N.B.;

and Ingale, Kishore, "RSS Applications in Libraries and Information Centres" (2009). Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal). 251. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libphilprac/251 "RSS Applications in Libraries and Information Centres," Dr. Sadanand Bansode, N.B. Dahibhate, Kishore Ingale. Library Philosophy and Practice

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1 Library Philosophy and Practice

2009 ISSN 1522-0222 RSS Applications in Libraries and Information Centres Dr. Sadanand Bansode Reader Dept. of Library & Information Science University of Pune Pashan Road, Mumbai, India N.B. Dahibhate Information Scientist National Chemical Laboratory Pune C7 India Kishore Ingale Information Manager Tata Consultancy Services Pune C 8, India Introduction The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has had a profound impact on library and information science. Advances in ICTs have allowed traditional LIS methods to be replaced by the newer, faster, and more accurate ways of transmitting information. Library automation, database development, networking of libraries, Internet and intranet applications in LIS, consortium-based benefits, and so on, have benefited librarians and library users for a number of years, making the work of libraries easier and more user-based. Web 2.0 applications are carrying these trends further. Blogs, for example, are now widely used in libraries (Davison-Turley, 2005). Blogs are more powerful with the help of tools like RSS. What Is RSS? The initials RSS stand for several things: Rich Site Summary (Myadbase 2007) Really Simple Syndication (Chrsolutions 2007) RDF Site Summery (Mason 2007) RSS is an XML application that allows users to gather content as it is created and as sites are updated. When such a web feed is created, interested users can subscribe to it (Holvoet, 2006). Syndicated web pages are viewed with feed readers. RSS distributes a list of headlines, update notices, and sometimes full-text content. "RSS Applications in Libraries and Information Centres," Dr. Sadanand Bansode, N.B. Dahibhate, Kishore Ingale. Library Philosophy and Practice

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2 Literature Review Ingram and Awre (2005) review the literature on RSS, including its use as a portal (Clark, 2001), a way for librarians to evaluate and recommend websites (Spence, 2004), a way of filtering and customizing information delivery (Arnold, 2004), and a means of viewing relevant information in a succinct format (Moffat, 2003;

Hammond et al., 2004). They discuss the literature on blogging and RSS, including Conhaim (2004), and the use of RSS with harvested metadata (Duke, 2003). RSS Uses and Functions Without RSS, users must check needed sites daily for updates. An RSS feed (often called a news feed) can check sites using an RSS aggregator (a program that gathers and sorts out feeds). Since RSS data is small and fast-loading, it can easily be used with services like cell phones or PDAs (w3schools, 2008). RSS uses XML to distribute web content from one web site to many other sites. RSS feeds are RDF-compliant, and RSS files contain metadata that describes the content (James, 2000) A website that wants to allow other sites to publish some of its contents, create an RSS document and register the document with RSS publisher. Syndicated data can contain data like news, event listings, news stories, headlines, project updates etc. The special XML-format file that makes up an RSS feed is usually created in variety of ways. News sites and blogs are maintained using content management systems that often create RSS feeds as they are updated. Websites produced with tools like Dreamweaver generally do not create feeds automatically. Figure