Friday, December 5, 2003

I'll be part of Part II of a Webnet talk on RSS and XML #

In June 17, I spoke at Part 1 of a Webnet panel on RSS and XML.   I'll be part of Part 2 in January.  Here's the blurb: Webnet Meeting:   The Use of RSS and other XML Formats for Content Distribution:  Part 2 Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 Time: noon - 1:30 PM Place: 3110 Etcheverry Raymond Yee, who is the Technology Architect for the Interactive University Project (http://iu.berkeley.edu/iu), will give a demo of the Scholar's Box, a tool being developed by the Interactive University, to allow users to gather digital resources from multiple sources, organize the resources into personal collections, create new documents based on the resources, and share the collections and documents with others. Laheem Lamar Jordan, who is a second-year Master's student at the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) and on the research staff of the Center for Document Engineering (http://cde.berkeley.edu), will demonstrate how Center in a Box is designed to simplify the publishing and sharing of rich content for small to medium-sized organizations on the web. By enforcing structure in a site's content using XML and XML Schemas, Center in a Box separates content from presentation allowing a site's underlying data to be easily shared and repurposed as XHTML, PDF, RSS, and virtually any other format. Kalle Nemvalts, who is the Publication Manager for Information Systems and Technology, will present how to apply RSS to produce web resource listings -- RSS channels that contain "catalog" items pointing to web resources, and the items would contain Dublin Core metadata to facilitate automated filtering. This infrastructure will manage the content of websites such as http://ist.berkeley.edu/ and http://comp-resources.berkeley.edu/, which consist primarily of web resource listings sorted out into different topical categories. Scot Hacker, who is the webmaster at the Graduate School of Journalism (http://journalism.berkeley.edu/), will recap simplified RSS publishing via low-cost content management systems such as Movable Type. He'll then demonstrate how to install and use the MT-RSSFeed plugin, which allows Movable Type-driven sites to aggregate and integrate RSS feeds from external sources.   Posted by Raymond Yee on 12/5/03; 12:37:53 PM from the Web Technology dept. Discuss