January 13, 2004 meeting: RSS and XML, Part 2

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.

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Debra Goldentyer
Web Editor
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
510-643-3847 / goldenty@haas.berkeley.edu
http://haas.berkeley.edu/

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