ODP to index RSS Feeds
March 27th, 2004I just read this over at the ODP Weblog:
“Alongside standard HTML web sites and PDF documents, we’re now accepting RSS feeds as listings in the directory. There’s no change in the submission process but in future categories will start showing ‘XML’ sections with links to related RSS feeds.”
Jenny, Peter Scott, and I had a brief discussion on adding library weblogs to Libdex. This post reminded me that libraries should not only have weblogs attached to their information but RSS Feeds could be added to the database as well. Oh, and not to be too crazy about this, but how about using QuickSub, or an “Add to My Yahoo” button for librarians (and patrons) to easily add feeds to their aggregator of choice. Sorry Peter, am I getting ahead of myself here?
Back to the ODP, I am anxious as to how this is going to look. I hope that the entries will just include a link to subscribe to the feed (they could use QuickSub there too I suppose), but it looks like there will be separate “XML” sections (if I read the entry correctly). We’ll just have to see. Also, will Google pick up on these feeds in their directory? Hmmmmm…