• Home page
• Services
• Portfolio
• Programmes
• Shop
• News
• Contact
• Downloads
• Free software
• Radio
• Web accessibility
• [H] Website map

News compiled by Art Project Group:

• Free software:

  • • 
    • 
       

    • Free Software Foundation Europe

  • • 
    • 
       

    • Free Software Foundation

  • • 
    • 
       

    • northxsouth

  • • 
    • 
       

    • SourceForge.net

  • • 
    • 
       

    • Libervis Network

•  

• Training:

  • • 
    • 
       

    • Computerworld

•  

• Current affairs:

  • • 
    • 
       

    • CNN

What is RSS?

Basically, RSS is the widest implementation of RDF (Infrastructure for the Description of Resources). Since the birth of the web until today, there is a vast amount of available data. This data is addressed to humans but, in the face of its increasing volume, it became necessary to define a method to catalogue it all so that a medium could be developed by which it would be possible to find specific information by the use of software. To this end, the W3C published the RDF specification conceived as a series of data to define other data. The standard is, therefore, RDF, a derivative of XML, as are XHTML.

Some time ago, Netscape developed a DTD in which the vocabulary used for the implementation of channels for their navigator was defined, using XML. For various reasons, AOL decided to discontinue with the development and maintenance of RSS ,creating a vacuum which became occupied on different fronts:

• RDF Site Summary (RSS 1.0)

  • Published in December 2000, the RSS 1.0 specification, based wholly on RDF, with the aim of taking advantage of the opportunities for extension that it provides, without having to constantly up-date the specification versions, and conceived to make possible its joint use with other RDF vocabularies.

• Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0 and, previously RSS 0.91 and RSS 0.92)

  • The RSS 2.0 specification is based on XML, not on RDF, (i.e. a document of this type would be a valid XMLdocument, but would have nothing to do with RDF). Its development can be tracked at the RSS 2.0 taskforce  .

What is it for?

You will certainly have seen a huge amount of web log links with the legend "Syndicate this website" or "Subscribe to this website", accompanied by the XML or RSS logos.

What are they for?

To visit your favourite web logs you can do two things:

1. Open them, one by one, in your browser.

2. Subscribe to the RSS or XMLindexes, (to be hereinafter called RSS 2.0), via a News Reader, which will alert you when any changes are made in said web logs. There are many newsreaders, for example BottomFeeder  is available for almost all platforms, as are, Feed Reader  and Ampheta Desk  , and for each of them you can see screen shots on their own websites.

3. There is also an easier alternative. It consists in using the browser itself as a newsreader, to do so you need simply use Mozilla Firefox  and subscribe to the RSS news channels. You can even use on-line readers, such as is the case with this web page.

 

Alternative contact

 

Waiting for page to load...

Art Project Group's blog:

 

SEO links:

| Professional graphic design | Professional web design | Professional web hosting | Information technology (IT) services | Web marketing | Web positioning | SEO | Publishing of books | Type-setting |

 

Art Project Group takes part in the SEO conquest: RinconSEO  y Eurodipity