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We updated our Project Prospect articles today to release v1.1, with a pile of look & feel improvements to the HTML views and links. The most interesting technical addition is the launch of our enhanced RSS feeds, where we have updated our existing feeds for enhanced articles. These now include ontology terms and primary compounds both visually (as text terms and 2D images) and within the RDF - using the OBO in OWL representation and the info:inchi specification mentioned here by Tony only a few weeks ago.

The enhanced entries will soon become more common as we concentrate our enhancements on our Advance Articles, but the current example below from our Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences feed is lovely. RDF code after the jump - just as beautiful to the parents...

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Posted by Richard Kidd at 08:49 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

I just posted this entry on Nascent, Nature's Web Publishing blog, about Nature's new look for web feeds which essentially boils down to our using the RSS 1.0 'mod_content' module to add in a rich content description for human consumption to complement our long-standing commitment to machine-readable descriptions. We are thus able to deliver full citation details in our RSS feeds as XHTML in CDATA sections for humans and as DC/PRISM properties for machines, the whole encoded in our feed format of choice - RSS 1.0. Note also that we declared our intention to publish parallel feeds in Atom which again will carry both human- and machine-readable citations. Further details on the RSS 1.0/Atom paired feeds will be posted here in the near future.

Perhaps of special note we have added in the DOI in our descriptions in standard CrossRef citation format and linked it to the DX resolver.

Posted by Tony Hammond at 01:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Niall Kennedy has a post about the newly released Yahoo! Pipes. As he says:

"Yahoo! Pipes lets any Yahoo! registered user enter a set of data inputs and filter their results. You might splice a feed of your latest bookmarks on del.icio.us with the latest posts from your blog and your latest photographs posted to Flickr."

He also warns about possible implications for web publishers:

"Yahoo! Pipes makes it easy to remove advertising from feeds or otherwise reformat your content."

Note: As yet, I have not been able to access the site. Interested to learn if anybody else has and what their experiences have been.

Posted by Tony Hammond at 09:38 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Sam Ruby responds to Brian Kelly's post about the RSS Validator and its treatment of RSS 1.0, or rather, RSS 1.0 modules. As Ruby notes:

"There is no question that RSS 1.0 is widely deployed. RSS 1.0 has a minimal core. The validation for that core is pretty solid."

Not sure if I'd seen that RSS comparison table before, but it is reassuring. (Oh, and see the really simple case off to the right. ;)

Good point, anyway about contributing test cases. I guess we should really submit a PRISM test case. And yes, the Validator is somewhat buggy as some recent testing confirms. On which more later.

Posted by Tony Hammond at 04:54 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Sorry to be somewhat backwards, but just in case any folks didn't already know there's a couple new feeds set up recently (or at least they're newish to me :)

• News from STM (from the STM Association)
  
• eFoundations (from Andy Powell and Pete Johnston at Eduserv Foundation in the UK)
  

Posted by Tony Hammond at 06:04 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

This post blogged by Rafael Sidi at EEI. Wiley are now dishing out RSS feeds. And moreover from a cursory inspection (see e.g. here for the American Journal of Human Biology) it seems like they are putting out RSS 1.0 (RDF) and DC/PRISM metadata. Don't know if there's anyone from Wiley who can comment on this. But this really is the best news. (Now, who else can we get to join the party. ;)

Posted by Tony Hammond at 07:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)