Archive for the 'findability' Category

RSS Feeds for the University of Florida’s Digital Collections

Laurie N. Taylor June 24th, 2008

In our ongoing work to improve the findability of books in the UF Digital Collections (UFDC), we now have an RSS page with feeds for each of the collections. The RSS feed page is http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc2/rss/.

Please sign up for a feed or two to learn about the great materials added daily, and please share the RSS feeds with others!

RSS Feeds, Coming Soon!

Laurie N. Taylor June 18th, 2008

In addition to our UFDC search engine optimization, we’re working on RSS feeds for all new items and for new items from each of the collections. Our RSS feed page will be here: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/ufdc2/rss/ but it’s still in development right now. RSS feeds take advantage of the power of the web to syndicate and share content and the methods search engines use for ranking content. While this has been arguably problematic as traditional media takes its time in changing, using RSS feeds makes sense and especially so for sites that the University of Florida Digital Collections where we want to share content as widely and completely as possible. Hopefully this post will soon be followed by others on the active RSS feed!