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On 27 Jun 2008, at 14:58, Peter Crowther wrote: >> From: MacLeod, Roderick A >> Despite the growth in use of RSS, the vast majority >> of Internet users still don't take advantage of it (because >> RSS is still >> not particularly user-friendly, and many don't grasp the concept or >> understand what RSS is or what the various RSS icons mean, or >> what to do with them). > > And then there's the group who have tried RSS and given it up as a > bad job because they get deluged in irrelevant information that they > don't have time or brainpower to process. Syndication merely makes > matters worse, as you're often at the mercy of the syndicating agent > as to what they include in the feed. Poor, broad-brush or simply > nonexistent subject tagging means that panning this for the nuggets > of gold is a manual task - in which case, why not just go to Google > and search for what I want, when I want it? You could have a service that harvested all the content from the "Latest Items" in all UK repositories, and exposed it to Google as a normal Website. The content would be refreshed periodically. Then you could use a Google query like "semantic-web site:latest- research.ac.uk" Any user request to download content from that site would redirect to the host repository - only Google would be able to download documents from it. -- Les