Innovative & RSS
June 30, 2005
Innovative Interfaces issued a press release with more details about their upcoming RSS feeds in their 2006LE edition of Millennium. The two tools we have to look forward to are:
- Library staff can insert customized RSS feeds into catalog pages (for library events, booklists, etc.)
- Any search run using Boolean can be turned into an RSS feed. This means that new items that fall into the search parameters of a patron’s choosing can be fed to them (kind of like Preferred Searches)
July 1st, 2005 at 11:30 am
If you have the XML server you can do some of these things now. In fact you can have rss feeds for really any search. You can also syndicate your lists. I’m still polishing code and working out some of the problems I have with the xml server. One of the nice things is that A9′s OpenSearch is based on RSS so with a few changes to the XSLT you can have open search integration with the OPAC. Here’s a quick example I mocked up (doesn’t give much info right now and doesn’t error check too much):
http://a9.com/harry%20potter?a=sB0007WF86M
Hopefully I’ll have the code up on my blog soon.
July 2nd, 2005 at 9:16 am
Thanks Ryan. It’s true that with some extra work and an XML server you can get these up on your own. For those of us without XML server access (or the time to work on code), we’re anxiously awaiting III’s release
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