Thanks.  I think I was being a bit facetious rather than anything.  And to continue - what is the URL of the service 'a la Tweetdeck' that will allow me to easily choose, say, IRs that are particularly good in social science subjects from a list of all IRs, where I can also search across all IRs for, say, items on African politics and have that search saved with no more effort, and have the new results of that search delivered in real time, and also be able to scan in real time new items appearing in my selected IRs? And have this happen when I click on an icon on my desktop.  i.e to treat new items in IRs like tweets in Tweetdeck.
Roddy MacLeod
Heriot-Watt University
Riccarton
Edinburgh
EH14 4AS

From: Ian Stuart [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thu 12/03/2009 18:32
To: MacLeod, Roderick A
Subject: Re: [JISC-REPOSITORIES] Something different: Twitter search on repsitories

MacLeod, Roderick A wrote:
> Isn't Tweetdeck nice.  There's your list of friends items. Search, and
> then there is the live feed for that search in your interface.  No need
> for all that flapping around with RSS search feed URLs and feedreaders
> and suchlike.  Would a similar thingy for new content items from various
> selected Institutional Repositories and searches in IRs be useful.  Or
> is there one already?
I think you are confusing two issues here...

1) Functionality: The ability to have a box in your interface, which
allows you to search across repositores
2) Technology: The use of RSS or Atom feeds to broadcast up-to-date
information.

Creating [insert technology] feeds is not a problem - I've done both a
user-based search and an author-based search as part of the EM-LOADER
project..... how your undefined "interface" displays that information is
up to your interface designer :)

... and the SWORD-deposit facebook app will tell you when your friends
deposit something through the app :)


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