Great work, Jim. Time for us to follow (yet again).
I get an error, though:
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Internet Explorer cannot display this feed
This feed contains code errors.
Go back to the previous page.
More information
The following tags were not closed: rss, channel.
Line: 0 Character: 0
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http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/requestHandlers/doQuickSearch.cfm?searc
hterm=midshipman&startrow=&format=rss
Looking in Mozilla and checking the source, it looks like an error is
stopping the feed from being written completely before it's flushed:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/"
xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">
<channel>
<title>midshipman - National Maritime Museum Collections
Online</title>
<link>http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/requestHandlers/doQuickSearch.cfm
?searchterm=midshipman&authority=category&category=&startrow
=</link>
<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
<copyright>National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London</copyright>
<atom:link
href="http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/requestHandlers/doQuickSearch.cfm
?searchterm=midshipman&authority=category&category=&startrow
=&format=rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
<openSearch:totalResults>132</openSearch:totalResults>
<openSearch:startIndex></openSearch:startIndex>
<openSearch:itemsPerPage>20</openSearch:itemsPerPage>
The value "" cannot be converted to a number
....and that's it. Hence IE's error. Turns out that it's because the
value for statrow is missing from the URL - putting "1" in there fixed
it.
I'm trying to figure out just how much value of the OpenSearch part
would offer us(as with many sites, most of our pages have a site-wide
search box anyway), but your use of it for collections-specific search
is a possible answer. And the other thing, of course, is that the really
cool thing you've done is the RSS part, not the OpenSearch part -
likewise Perry's work in Bolton. Your data is now out in the wild.
You've taken a sensible approach to structuring your data, mixing DC and
RSS, and it looks like a good model to follow. Now let's see the
mashups!
Cheers, Jeremy
Jeremy Ottevanger
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Jim O'Donnell
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Subject: [MCG] OpenSearch and RSS at the National Maritime Museum
Hi everyone,
You might be interested to know that we've added support for opensearch,
and RSS news feeds, to http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections So any list of
objects should now be available as a feed, including search results, and
'NMM Collections' should be available as a search engine in any browser
that supports opensearch.
http://eatyourgreens.org.uk/archives/2008/04/opening_up_muse.html
I'd be interested to know if anyone has thoughts on potential uses for
RSS feeds like this.
Jim
Jim O'Donnell
Senior Web Developer
National Maritime Museum
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Greenwich
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