Tuesday, February 25, 2003

Ray Matthews is Collaborating with Jenny Levine! Jenny Levine (the Shifted Librarian) and Ray Matthews of the Utah State Library will both be making presentations on the use of RSS at an upcoming GILS conference.  I am glad to see that Ray is involved since he has done a marvelous job of helping to promote the use of RSS in Utah.  I'm glad to see the collaboration that is taking place.  Jenny's goals for Illinois are very similar to ours: What I'd really like to see is the RSS-ification of all library and government news (for starters), plus the creation of a news aggregator that can be branded by each individual library. The library would give away the software (or access to a web site), hand-pick a set of default, localized feeds, and then promote the aggregator to its residents while working with local government to RSS-ify the whole town! Ray and I both think NewsMonster has potential for this type of application since it claims to handle news sites that don't provide their own RSS feeds, but neither of us has had a chance to play with it yet. If nothing suitable has developed by August, I'd like to apply for grant funds to create such a beast (along with the bookmarklets + OPAC search toolbar). I've established a goal with the Utah Product Management Council for every agency to have its own RSS feed.  We've got a long ways to go, but I believe that some progress is being made. 7:56:21 AM    comment []

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