Law Library Journal, Vol. 101, No. 1. (29 October 2008)

Ms. Murley explores the reasons that law librarians should be using RSS feeds, both for their own current awareness and to distribute information to library patrons. She highlights feeds law librarians can use, compares two feed readers, and makes recommendations for subscribing to and organizing feeds.
Diane Murley

In in ISMIR, Vol. 2005 (2005), pp. 464-467.

In this paper we give an overview of the Foafing the Music system. The system uses the Friend of a Friend (FOAF) and Rich Site Summary (RSS) vocabularies for recommending music to a user, depending on her musical tastes. Music information (new album releases, related artists’ news and available audio) is gathered from thousands of RSS feeds —an XML format for syndicating Web content. On the other hand, FOAF documents are used to define user preferences. The presented system provides music discovery by means of: user profiling —defined in the user’s FOAF description—, context-based information —extracted from music related RSS feeds — and content-based descriptions —extracted from the audio itself. 1
Òscar Celma

Serials Review, Vol. 33, No. 4. (December 2007), pp. 253-256.

Discussions surrounding the concepts of Web 2.0/Library 2.0 are increasing among the library community. This column outlines key principles behind Web 2.0 and provides a brief explanation of social tools, such as blogs, RSS feeds, podcasting, and wikis. The author also provides specific uses and applications of these tools within the library environment to illustrate the Library 2.0 concept. An open framework for library communication or hyperlinked library can result if Library 2.0 philosophies are fully utilized.
M Stephens

Medical reference services quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 2. (2009), pp. 172-179.

Anyone who has tried to set up RSS feeds with or for a patron knows that the RSS feeds for e-journals can behave wildly, like free-range cattle, while the e-journals that libraries subscribe to tend to be more like farm-raised cattle, because they are packaged for institutions rather than individuals. Because of this disconnect, the experience of teaching RSS feeds to one's patrons can be fraught with "oops" moments. Knowing what to expect can help librarians prepare to teach patrons to use RSS feeds without scaring them away from a powerful tool. This article will discuss some problems to expect and ways to work around them.
AM Fletcher

In SIRIR '07: Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval (2007), pp. 787-788.

Subscribers to the popular news or blog feeds (RSS/Atom) often face the problem of information overload as these feed sources usually deliver large number of items periodically. One solution to this problem could be clustering similar items in the feed reader to make the information more manageable for a user. Clustering items at the feed reader end is a challenging task as usually only a small part of the actual article is received through the feed. In this paper, we propose a method of improving the accuracy of clustering short texts by enriching their representation with additional features from Wikipedia. Empirical results indicate that this enriched representation of text items can substantially improve the clustering accuracy when compared to the conventional bag of words representation
Somnath Banerjee, Krishnan Ramanathan, Ajay Gupta

In CIKM '09: Proceeding of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management (2009), pp. 2097-2098.

This paper introduces the RSS Watchdog system, which is capable of news clustering and instant event monitoring over multiple real and online RSS news streams. We briefly mention software architecture design, technical implementation, and prototype demonstration. In addition, the results of real case studies are presented to notice the RSS Watchdog's functionality
Chih Hu, Chung Chou

Journal of Web Librarianship, Vol. 2, No. 1. (2008), pp. 41-59.

Many libraries use RSS to syndicate information about their collections to users. A survey of 65 academic libraries revealed their most common use for RSS is to disseminate information about library holdings, such as lists of new acquisitions. Even though typical RSS feeds are ill suited to the task of carrying rich bibliographic metadata, great potential exists for developing applications that can exploit metadata exposed to Web services via RSS. Using the MODS metadata format, entire catalog records can be seamlessly embedded in RSS 2.0 feeds. Existing tools, such as Library of Congress Java toolkits and XSLT stylesheets, can facilitate this process, while a new XSLT stylesheet may be used to create the RSS feeds complete with MODS records. As an example of the added functionality these MODS/RSS feeds can offer, records from a MODS-enriched RSS feed can be ingested into a non-RSS application such as Zotero. As more emerging library technologies use Web services architectures to handle data objects, the ability to syndicate catalog records will become more critical to providing innovative library Web services.
Andrew Ashton

Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems (2008), pp. 353-356.

This paper presents an approach to exploit widely used tag annotations to address two important issues in user-adaptive systems: the cold-start problem and the integration of distributed user models. The paper provides an example of re-use of user interaction data (tags) generated by one application into another one in similar domains for providing cross-system recommendations.
Yiwen Wang, Federica Cena, Francesca Carmagnola, Omar Cortassa, Cristina Gena, Natalia Stash, Lora Aroyo

Knowledge Acquisition and Modeling, 2008. KAM '08. International Symposium on In Knowledge Acquisition and Modeling, 2008. KAM '08. International Symposium on (2008), pp. 191-195.

The thesis first gives a brief introduction about the concepts of blog, RSS and knowledge management. And it states the possibility and superiority of blog and RSS to explain the reason why we apply them together in the field of postgraduatepsilas knowledge management. Then, combined with the cultivating model in China and postgraduatespsila own learning characteristics, both the problems and cruxes existing in postgraduatespsila personal knowledge management are pointed out. Furthermore, to counter these problems, it proposed some instructive strategies with concrete implement process about how to make use of blog and RSS to improve postgraduate's personal knowledge management by setting up a knowledge management platform based on blog and RSS. These strategies have covered different aspects of knowledge management including knowledge identification, knowledge acquisition, knowledge development, knowledge sharing, knowledge application and knowledge evaluation. Finally, an available and effective way of postgraduate's personal knowledge management would be presented.
Hongfei Li, Xiaolu Yang, Shu Zhao

J Med Pract Manage, Vol. 21, No. 6. (n 2006), pp. 345-347.

Really simple syndication (RSS) feeds and aggregators are indispensable tools for clinicians who need to stay abreast of the latest clinical research, public health publications, and economic factors that might affect their practice. RSS enables clinicians with a compatible browser, such as Mozilla Firefox, or other desktop aggregator, to view headlines and journal article titles from dozens or even hundreds of disparate Web sites of their choosing. Instead of wasting time visiting each Web site, dealing with pop-ups and advertising, and parsing new data from old, aggregators provide a single, simple window into the information. Setting up a desktop aggregator to manage and display RSS feeds is straightforward and, thanks to open source applications, imminently affordable.
BP Bergeron

The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy, Vol. 15, No. 1. (2007), pp. 57-58.

The JMMT website has recently added an RSS feed. This technology allows users to keep track of changes to websites of interest without having to regularly visit those sites. This article briefly discusses the history of RSS, explains how to access RSS feeds, and provides step-by-step information on using this new feature on the JMMT website.
J Doree

Automated Experimentation, Vol. 1, No. 1. (2009), 3.

The means we use to record the process of carrying out research remains tied to the concept of a paginated paper notebook despite the advances over the past decade in web based communication and publication tools. The development of these tools offers an opportunity to re-imagine what the laboratory record would look like if it were re-built in a web-native form. In this paper I describe a distributed approach to the laboratory record based which uses the most appropriate tool available to house and publish each specific object created during the research process, whether they be a physical sample, a digital data object, or the record of how one was created from another. I propose that the web-native laboratory record would act as a feed of relationships between these items. This approach can be seen as complementary to, rather than competitive with, integrative approaches that aim to aggregate relevant objects together to describe knowledge. The potential for the recent announcement of the Google Wave protocol to have a significant impact on realizing this vision is discussed along with the issues of security and provenance that are raised by such an approach.
Cameron Neylon

Studies in health technology and informatics, Vol. 136 (2008), pp. 33-38.

Among the numerous new functionalities of the Internet, commonly called Web 2.0, Web syndication illustrates the trend for better and faster information sharing. Web feeds (a.k.a RSS feeds), which were used mostly on weblogs at first, are now also widely used in academic, scientific and institutional websites such as PubMed. As very few French language feeds were listed or catalogued in the Health field by the year of 2007, it was decided to implement them in the quality-controlled health gateway CISMeF ([French] acronym for Catalogue and Index of French Language Health Resources on the Internet). Furthermore, making full use of the nature of Web syndication, a Web feed aggregator was put online in to provide a dynamic news gateway called "CISMeF actualités" (http://www.chu-rouen.fr/actualites/). This article describes the process to retrieve and implement the Web feeds in the catalogue and how its terminology was adjusted to describe this new content. It also describes how the aggregator was put online and the features of this news gateway. CISMeF actualités was built accordingly to the editorial policy of CISMeF. Only a part of the Web feeds of the catalogue were included to display the most authoritative sources. Web feeds were also grouped by medical specialties and by countries using the prior indexing of websites with MeSH terms and the so-called metaterms. CISMeF actualités now displays 131 Web feeds across 40 different medical specialities, coming from 5 different countries. It is one example, among many, that static hypertext links can now easily and beneficially be completed, or replaced, by dynamic display of Web content using syndication feeds.
G Kerdelhué, B Thirion, B Dahamna, SJ Darmoni

In GROUP '09: Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international conference on Supporting group work (2009), pp. 277-280.

Feed readers have emerged as one of the salient applications that characterize Web 2.0. Lately, some of the available readers introduced social features, analogously to other Web 2.0 applications, such as recommendations and tagging. Yet, most of the readers lack collaborative features, such as the ability to share feeds in a community or divide the reading task among community members. In this paper we describe CoffeeReader, a web-based feed reader, which combines social and collaborative features, and is deployed in a small community within our company. CoffeeReader provides awareness of other users' feed lists and read status; it enables information sharing such as tags and recommendations; and aims to support coordination of filtering through feeds to locate important items. We compare these group collaboration features of CoffeeReader with emerging features in publicly available feed readers; present the outcomes of using CoffeeReader within our community; and discuss our findings and their implications on making feed readers more collaborative.
Netta Reshef, Ido Guy, Michal Jacovi

AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium (2005)

PubMed Informer is a Web-based monitoring tool for topics of interest from MEDLINE/PubMed primarily designed for healthcare professionals. Five tracking methods are available: Web access, e-mail, Short Message Service (SMS), PDA downloads and RSS feeds. PubMed Informer delivers focused search updates and specific information to users with varying information-seeking practices.
M Muin, P Fontelo, M Ackerman

WMJ : official publication of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin, Vol. 108, No. 1. (February 2009), pp. 30-34.

In this age of information technology, physicians are confronted daily with the dilemma of how to deal with an excess of medical information. To do this efficiently and effectively, it is important to be aware of new technologies and their application. This article introduces emerging technologies, highlighting some of the resources available and demonstrating how they can assist the physician with the daily flow of information.
AM Lozeau, B Potter

AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium (2006)

Health care professionals suffer from information overload and struggle to filter evidence relevant to their field. There is a need for solution that facilitates filtering and delivery of information specifically tailored to the needs of researchers and practitioners, and provides an opportunity to efficiently critique and share evidence- based articles. Our "online evidence- based information portal" can serve as a model for knowledge delivery, sharing, management and archiving that can be applied to any biomedical domain.
A Atreja, B Messinger-Rapport, A Jain, N Mehta