Registry in RSS

[Andy Lawrence at ROE]

You probably all know this, but VO Desktop has had a "recent changes"  
automatically updated list for yonks. I am not sure how much users use  
it, but I do.

Different issue from the VO event stuff tho, and I do like the "we are  
about to observe..." idea.

   andy


On 13 Jan 2010, at 15:24, Markus Demleitner wrote:

Dear Registry folks,

In the department "cheap ads" I've set up an RSS feed of what's new
in the registry at http://vo.uni-hd.de/regrss .

This is updated via an OAI query twice a day (6 am and 4 pm
CET, actually).  Before going ahead with actually publishing and
registering this, I'd appreciate some feedback from you.

I have particular doubts about my half-assed HTML-based way of
conveying a bit of key-value-fun.  Using, e.g., the author tag in RSS
for creator.name is something I don't quite like; for one, the content
of the author element is not displayed very prominently in many RSS
UAs, whereas the typical astronomer looks at author(s) first (80% of
ADS queries used to be author *only*), and for a second, I don't
believe creator.name is a close match for RSS' author.

So, I'm using HTML definition lists in the RSS description.  Ugly --
but does it at least work well for you?  I'm using RSS categories for
the subjects, on the other hand.  Is that a good idea?  Are there any
UAs that actually do something with it?

Any feedback welcome.

Cheers,

       Markus


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