Understanding Content Syndication and Aggregation with RSS

»D.J. Adams

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Abstract

During this session, we'll look at how RSS is used in syndicating and aggregating content. You'll see the overall flow of information, how RSS is produced and consumed, what RSS looks like and how the information is structured. We'll also look at some common RSS tools, and examine how your programs can read and write RSS. After looking at how RSS can be extended, we'll wind up looking briefly at the role RDF plays in RSS 1.0. Examples will be taken from weblogs, news sites, and ERP systems.

Keywords

»Aggregation, »RDF, »RSS, »Semantic, »Syndication.

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Biography

»D.J. Adams

»East Sussex

»United Kingdom

Email: dj.adams@pobox.com

Web: http://www.pipetree.com/qmacro

DJ Adams is an old SAP hacker who still thinks JCL and S/370 assembler is pretty cool. In recent years he's been successfully combining Open Source software with R/3 to produce hybrid systems that show off the power of free software.He is the author of O'Reilly's Programming Jabber, contributes articles to O'ReillyNet's P2P site, and has to own up to being responsible for the Jabber::Connection, Jabber::RPC and Jabber::Component::Proxy modules on CPAN.