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My Mashed Library lightning talk – atoz’n'rss
Edit (8th July) – slideshare.net does not seem to like displaying these slides on-screen, so here they are to download in MS PowerPoint format.
Here are the slides (on slideshare.net) of the 5-minute lightning talk I just gave at Mashed Library 2009, on using ticTOCs data to display e-journal ToC feeds, and on creating a new-titles feed with Yahoo Pipes, etc.
Subject blog feeds, anyone?
A few people have asked if we can (and whether we should) set up individual subject-specific blogs.
The thing is, we’ve already got ‘em (kind of):
- Architecture
- Art & Design
- Forensic Science
- Humanities
- Journalism
- Law
- Performing Arts
- Policy Studies
- Psychology
- Social Work
Each link is a separate RSS feed of postings to the main L&LR news blog, filtered down to only those posts which have been tagged with the name of a subject. Any new posts you add with the same subject tag will show up in the feed. And you can create a new subject feed by writing a post and creating a new subject tag.
These feeds could then by displayed in (e.g.) Blackboard using a tool like feed2js.org, which renders the RSS as JavaScript code (which you can then paste into an item in a Bb folder).
And if we ever wanted to have entirely separate subject blogs in the future, we could just convert the tag-specific feed into a separate named blog. Semantically there’s no difference in WordPress between a blog, a category, and a tag.
Paul
