Abstract
In this workshop session, we explore how to make RSS work in your institution.
Recently, the University of Oxford has risen to this challenge: it has delivered a devolved institutional newsfeed system. This workshop session will discuss how this system was produced and will demonstrate how easy it is to produce news items and get them displayed on a Web page or delivered through RSS.
The session will look at:
- how to deliver a devolved institutional newsfeed system;
- the benefits to departments of doing this;
- how to succeed in attracting customers to the newsfeed system;
- some of the interesting issues when providing a newsfeed system;
- authentication and authorisation;
- support for multiple newsfeed formats;
- support for utf-8;
- support for aggregation and categories;
- handling events and delivering iCalendar.
Participants will be able to explore these ideas during a hands-on session that uses the University of Oxford’s newsfeed system.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the session participants will:
- have understood how newsfeeds fit into their institution;
- have grasped how easy it is to build a newsfeed system;
- be aware of some of the issues involved in delivering a newsfeed system;
- have hands-on experience of producing news items, delivering RSS and producing news on a Web page;
- be in a position to sell these ideas to their own institution.