RSS Creator

August 14th, 2005

Ken Varnum does a great job manning Web4Lib for us and blogs some neat stuff he sees on RSS. Ken is my Web4Lib RSS Filter. Nice. We could all use a Ken in our lives.

Anyway, Ken mentions a really cool looking tool called RSS Creator, created by Dave Walker, a Web Development Librarian (cool title) at Cal State San Marcos. According to David, RSS Creator will provide libraries “instant access to 20,000 to 40,000 feeds.” More from his Web4Lib post.

“The system can create an RSS feed for any journal or newspaper indexed by one of our databases, so long as that database is searchable via Metalib — regardless of whether the publisher or database provider makes those feeds available now.”

Very powerful stuff. Check out the demo.

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