> On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Paschoud,J wrote:
>
> > Yes... RSS (and existing tools for it) would help with some of the
> > things users want to do with lists, like including in
> portals. I wonder if WebCT has a built-in RSS channel?
> (which would solve another problem of integrated use with
> ReadingListDirect, which LSE is going to try using in DELIVER).
> >
> > But first we need to dentify a schema for the whole
> description ...or
> > invent one.
I suspect that we'll have to invent something. There is some work in this
area at
http://www.rdn.ac.uk/resource-centre/documentation/
but you should note that this is an unfinished bit of work undertaken by
Monica Bonett at UKOLN. We did this as part of some thinking behind an
RDN service we were going to call the RDN ResourceCentre - at the
current time we have no plans to take this work forward, partly while we
wait to see how commercial tools in this area pan out.
We took the view that an item in a reading list is either a book or a
journal article or a Web resource and identified a set of properties for
each, based largely on the fields in the OpenURL and in ReferenceManager
export format I think.
It may or may not be useful...
Andy
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