Hi folks: What do people think about providing RSS feeds for Public Lists? One of our librarians mentioned it to me, and I think it's a great idea. The library can curate these lists, and users follow whatever list/feed interests them. Rather than checking on the list periodically, they will get notifications via their feed aggregator. I'm not sure about what format to use though. Originally, I was just thinking of doing standard RSS, but then I took a look at the OPAC and noticed the added bits of 'atom' and 'opensearch', so I thought I would take it to the group. Anyone have ideas about the best way to proceed? I would love if someone with more knowledge of these standards was about to speak to them : ). -David
I can’t see adding support for RSS in public lists breaking anyones workflow so I’m all for it. I know at least one library here using public lists as a means of publishing recommended reading so it would be useful. I’ve also had people wish for a way to add a some HTML to a public list that would display at the top of the list to add some comments and pictures providing additional context besides the name of the list. I’d say using the same syndication standards for all parts of Koha would be the best, so my vote is on using the same format(s) as the rest of the Opac. And if someone is sitting around with nothing to do I’d say make RSS for the news in Opac happen too :) Kind regards/Viktor Viktor Sarge Utvecklingsledare Regionbibliotek Halland Kultur i Halland TFN: 035-17 98 73 E-POST: Viktor.Sarge@regionhalland.se<mailto:Viktor.Sarge@regionhalland.se> BESÖKSADRESS: Södra vägen 9, 30180 Halmstad WEBB: www.regionhalland.se/regionbibliotek<http://www.regionhalland.se/regionbibliotek> 3 apr 2014 kl. 07:54 skrev David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au<mailto:dcook@prosentient.com.au>>: Hi folks: What do people think about providing RSS feeds for Public Lists? One of our librarians mentioned it to me, and I think it’s a great idea. The library can curate these lists, and users follow whatever list/feed interests them. Rather than checking on the list periodically, they will get notifications via their feed aggregator. I’m not sure about what format to use though. Originally, I was just thinking of doing standard RSS, but then I took a look at the OPAC and noticed the added bits of ‘atom’ and ‘opensearch’, so I thought I would take it to the group. Anyone have ideas about the best way to proceed? I would love if someone with more knowledge of these standards was about to speak to them : ). -David _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org<mailto:Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org> http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
As an end-user, I think this is a fantastic idea -- particularly if there's a way to tweak the feed so that content can be customized to some extent. EG, I imagine most folks would want to include title, author, content description from the 520, call number & branch, but this could vary depending on the library, item type, etc. I'm format-agnostic, but agree that keeping things consistent with other Koha RSS feeds makes a lot of sense. Cheers, Cab Vinton, Director Plaistow Public Library Plaistow, NH On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:54 AM, David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au> wrote:
Hi folks:
What do people think about providing RSS feeds for Public Lists?
One of our librarians mentioned it to me, and I think it's a great idea. The library can curate these lists, and users follow whatever list/feed interests them. Rather than checking on the list periodically, they will get notifications via their feed aggregator.
I'm not sure about what format to use though. Originally, I was just thinking of doing standard RSS, but then I took a look at the OPAC and noticed the added bits of 'atom' and 'opensearch', so I thought I would take it to the group.
Anyone have ideas about the best way to proceed? I would love if someone with more knowledge of these standards was about to speak to them : ).
-David
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This was one of my first ever enhancement requests for Koha: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=1917 Nicole On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Cab Vinton <bibliwho@gmail.com> wrote:
As an end-user, I think this is a fantastic idea -- particularly if there's a way to tweak the feed so that content can be customized to some extent. EG, I imagine most folks would want to include title, author, content description from the 520, call number & branch, but this could vary depending on the library, item type, etc.
I'm format-agnostic, but agree that keeping things consistent with other Koha RSS feeds makes a lot of sense.
Cheers,
Cab Vinton, Director Plaistow Public Library Plaistow, NH
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 1:54 AM, David Cook <dcook@prosentient.com.au> wrote:
Hi folks:
What do people think about providing RSS feeds for Public Lists?
One of our librarians mentioned it to me, and I think it's a great idea. The library can curate these lists, and users follow whatever list/feed interests them. Rather than checking on the list periodically, they will get notifications via their feed aggregator.
I'm not sure about what format to use though. Originally, I was just thinking of doing standard RSS, but then I took a look at the OPAC and noticed the added bits of 'atom' and 'opensearch', so I thought I would take it to the group.
Anyone have ideas about the best way to proceed? I would love if someone with more knowledge of these standards was about to speak to them : ).
-David
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This was one of my first ever enhancement requests for Koha: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=1917 bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
And in fact I did begin work on it before running into some snags that I wasn't sure how to address. I'll dig up that branch and see how far I got. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
Awesome! Thanks, Owen for looking that up. Thanks also to everyone else for replying :). -----Original Message----- From: Owen Leonard [mailto:oleonard@myacpl.org] Sent: Friday, 4 April 2014 1:27 AM To: koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org Cc: David Cook Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] RSS feed for Public Lists
This was one of my first ever enhancement requests for Koha: http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=1917 bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
And in fact I did begin work on it before running into some snags that I wasn't sure how to address. I'll dig up that branch and see how far I got. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org
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