Monday, June 2, 2003

Accessing Library of Congress records -- latest info #

David Williamson from the Library of Congress sent me a pointer to a page with "sample links [which] contain all the information that is necessary to access a particular record (or records) via an HTML link that generates a Z39.50 Gateway search."  Thanks, David -- this is the type of info I've been trying to find for a while.  For example: ISSN search examples using Stateless Z39.50 Gateway and left-anchored search): ISSN 1046-8897   Posted by Raymond Yee on 6/2/03; 4:34:09 PM from the Web Technology dept. Discuss (1 response)

What is RSS aggregation about and why should we care? #

Lynn asks: I don't quite understand aggregators, RSS feeds and such, and every explanation I read is fairly solipsistic, so I find them incomprehensible. Do I need a news feed?  Do I want to add my blog to an aggregator (although from my stats I think it already is on the Frontier xml aggregator)?  I want to have a live phone conversation with one of you more technically competent people.  Any volunteers? I just had a great conversation with Lynn, with whom I always enjoy conversing.  I won't try to reproduce our conversation here.  Instead, I'll just make a few pointers: Do I need a news feed?  Well, actually your blog already has one automatically generated -- http://interactiveu.berkeley.edu:8000/lj/xml/rss.xml  (All manila sites have an RSS feed at http://yoursitename/xml/rss.xml) Manila now has rudimentary news aggregation functionality -- but I don't find it that helpful so far.  The big problem is that it doesn't let me easily repurpose pieces of news channels coming in to flow the content back into my blog.  (I have two channels aggregated on my manila aggregator right now -- Lynn's and Jon Udell's.)   Posted by Raymond Yee on 6/2/03; 2:54:11 PM from the Web Technology dept. Discuss

Scholars Who Blog (CHE) #

It will be interesting to read this article on scholarly blogging and post more thoughts later.  Note the upcoming online event: Colloquy Live: Join a live, online discussion with Eugene Volokh, a professor of law at the University of California at Los Angeles and the founder of the Volokh Conspiracy, an academic blog, on issues facing scholars who have blogs, on Wednesday, June 4, at 1 p.m., U.S. Eastern time. Thoughts to come....   Posted by Raymond Yee on 6/2/03; 2:47:37 PM from the Unclassified dept. Discuss