Bringing DLESE to Your Doorstep

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Bringing DLESE to Your Doorstep

• Using RSS to distribute content and personalize
  the DLESE experience

Shelley Olds
DLESE University Corp for Atmospheric Research
DLESE Annual Meeting
July 10, 2004
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DLESE information sent to you, automatically

• RSS Real Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary
• RSS is an XML-based format for distributing and
  aggregating Web content (such as news headlines).
  
• Similar to an email newsletter
• Content comes to you instead of you looking for
  it
• Easier tracking of multiple sources of
  information
• Updated more frequently hourly/ daily
• A content publisher syndicates a feed
• DLESE is the publisher
• Our content is syndicated daily
• The feeds are written in XML and provide the
  content

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DLESE and RSS

• Find up-to-the-minute news and supporting
  educational resources about current Earth events
  and Earth system science opportunities
• Current DLESE feeds (or syndications)
• New resources to the library
• Newly reviewed resources
• New resources under review
• Whats new in DLESE
• Syndications coming soon
• News and opportunities
• Workshops
• Latest Resources of Interest
• Resources available for Grade Range/Resource
  Type/etc.

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Personalizing your experience

• Allows DLESE content to be redistributed (a la
  Reuters)
• As aggregators pick up DLESE feeds, DLESE content
  could show up anywhere!
• Other libraries can subscribe to DLESE services
• Future "Create-a-feed" (Give the user an RSS URL
  for their own custom Discovery search)
• Most visited resources - last week/last month/all
  time
• Customized search results on a given topic/grade
• Most frequently searched keyword terms
• Mailing list thread summaries

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Two parts to make RSS work

• Part 1-- An XML news feed from a website

DLESE web page for new resources
Turned into XML using RSS format
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Two parts to make RSS work

• Part 1-- An XML news feed from a website
• Part 2--A news reader to translate and display
  the feeds
• You choose feeds youre interested in
• The news reader displays titles and short
  summaries of new items

Newly Reviewed Resources in DLESE
Newly Resources under Review
New Resources in DLESE
The reader pulls these feeds together in one place
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Using RSS Feeds

• Many news readers (aggregators) are separate,
  "stand-alone" programs such as those listed
  above other services will let you add RSS feeds
  to a Web page.
• Step 1Look for xml button
• Step 2View XML feed and copy address
• Step 3Find a news reader and add the feed to the
  read
• Behind the scenes News readers check the feeds
  that you tell it to, see if there is any new
  content, and if so, save the content for you to
  view when you are ready.

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List of DLESE Feeds

• New resources in the DLESE library
• Title DLESE - New resources
• http//www.dlese.org/dds/services/rss2-0?qs0so
  rtbywndatewntypeitemnewwnfromrecentshow20
• Resources in the DLESE library that have recently
  come under review
• Title DLESE - New resources under review
• http//www.dlese.org/dds/services/rss2-0?qs0so
  rtbywndatewntypeitemannoinprogresswnfromrecen
  tshow20
• Resources in the DLESE library that have new
  reviews
• Title DLESE - Newly reviewed resources
• http//www.dlese.org/dds/services/rss2-0?qs0so
  rtbywndatewntypeitemannocompletewnfromrecent
  show20
• Breaking news and recent links of interest from
  the DLESE library
• "What's New at DLESE
• http//www.dlese.org/whats_new-rss2-0.xml

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What DLESE looks like in a reader

• Subscribe to and immediately receive the news and
  categories of DLESE resources as soon as those
  resources become available in the library

Example http//www.bloglines.com/blog/earthgazer?
subid2165872
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Popular news reader programs

• Pluck http//www.pluck.com/ (free, IE add-in)
• Bloglines http//www.bloglines.com/ (free,
  online)
• NetNewsWire http//ranchero.com/netnewswire/
  (Mac, free demo)
• Rocketinfo http//demo.rocketinfo.com/desktop/
  
• AmphetaDesk http//www.disobey.com/amphetadesk/
  (free)
• FeedReader http//feedreader.com (Free)
• NewsCrawler http//www.newzcrawler.com ()
• NewsMonster http//www.newsmonster.org/
  (Mozilla/Netscape 7)