RSS Feed (Really Simple Syndication)
- What is RSS?
- How can I use RSS?
- How do I get a news reader?
- Can I use these feeds on my site?
- How do I get a feed on a subject of my interest (Custom RSS)?
- What is the difference between RSS and GeoRSS?
What is RSS?
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) provides an easy and efficient method of keeping up to date with the information you want from a website. Rather than using the traditional means of web browsing, clicking through multiple sites, RSS allows the user to amalgamate multiple sources of information in one single location.
RSS allows to user to view new content from any RSS enabled site. You can get the latest headlines and articles (or even audio files, photographs or video) in one place, as soon as they are published, without having to remember to visit each site every day.
RSS simply provides a webpage in a slightly different format which can be read by computers rather than by people. This enables the computer to do all the hard work in bringing you new information which is of interest to you!
How can I use RSS?
Users of RSS generally do so via a "News Reader." A News Reader is a specialist piece of software which checks RSS feeds for new information.
Once you have chosen a News Reader you can choose which feed you wish to subscribe to. You will find these feeds on the right hand site of the page demarked by this symbol
. Clcik on the hyperlink and it will take you to the RSS feed where you can subscribe.
This can be achieved in various ways, including dragging the URL of the RSS feed into your news reader or by cutting and pasting the same URL into a new feed in your news reader.Some browsers, including Firefox, Opera and Safari, automatically check for RSS feeds for you when you visit a website, and display an icon when they find one. You will find the icon in your address bar on this site
How do I get a news reader?
There are a multitude of different news readers available and new products are available all the time. A list of the most popular News Readers along with the operating systems on which they operate can be found below.
Windows Mac OS X Web Newz Crawler Newsfire Bloglines FeedDemon NetNewsWire My Yahoo! Awasu NewsGator IGoogle
The Geographical Information Projects Registry does not endorse any particular product nor does it accept any responsibility for software or products downloaded from external sites.
Can I use these feeds on my site?
RSS feeds can be used to display information from other sites on you own site. We encourage the use of Geographic Information Project Registry feeds as part of a website.
We would ask, however, that the feed is appropriately acknowledged. You may not use the AGI Scotland, Scottish Government or University of Edinburgh logos or any other company trademark which appears on the site without written permission.
The Geographical Information Projects Registry reserves the right to ask for its content to be removed from any website The Geographical Information Projects Registry does not accept any liability for its RSS feeds.
How do I get a feed on a subject of my interest (Custom RSS)?
The Geographical Information Projects Registry offers an innovative service in that you can tailor an RSS feed to suit you. This service is located on the right hand side of this page under the heading "Custom RSS". To use the customisable RSS feed, enter a keyword term which is of interest to you. The example given is "Environmental", which would produce an RSS feed with all projects related to the keyword "Environmental." Enter a keyword of you own and hit the submit button to generate an RSS feed which can be subsribed to in the same manner as any other RSS feed.
What is the difference between RSS and GeoRSS?
- The Geographical Information Projects Registry offers synication in both RSS and GeoRSS form. GeoRSS enables us to map the extent of a new project using Google Maps. If you wish to use the GeoRSS feed, simply add the URL into you aggregator or personal homepage and click on a project heading. This will take you to a Google Maps page on which the project extent is clearly defined. If you would like to find out more about a project, a link is provided which will take you to our record of that initiative in our catalogue.
