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ticTOCs – The Future of Unlocking the Value of Publisher’s RSS feeds?
John Shaw
Director of Publishing Technologies
SAGE
ticTOCS SSP – November 2007
• Overview
• RSS review – use in academic publishing
• What is ticTOCs– Background– Partners– Aims and objectives – Timelines– Project deliverables
ticTOCS SSP – November 2007
OverviewState of academic research and content available• 20-25k peer reviewed journals• > 60% published online• 5.5 million researchers globally• Efficiency in discovering content desired • Email alerts most prevalent for use in journals• RSS TOC alerts availability growing
– Over 38 publishers totaling more than 7000 feeds
• RSS confusing to many
ticTOCS SSP – November 2007
What is RSS?Vocabulary…
– XML (ĕks’ĕm-ĕl’) NOUN: A metalanguage written in SGML that allows one to design a markup language, used to allow for the easy interchange of documents on the World Wide Web
– RSS (är’ĕs’ĕs) NOUN: A lightweight XML format designed for sharing headlines and other web content
– ATOM (ăt’әm) NOUN: An XML-based document format for the syndication of web content such as weblogs and new headlines
ticTOCS SSP – November 2007
What is RSS?What RSS IS …
– An increasingly popular tool being used by Fortune 500 companies
– A very quick and easy way to syndicate content online
– A new way to push content alerts, corporate news, and new product information
– A potential revenue stream in the coming years
– An answer to e-mail overload
ticTOCS SSP – November 2007
The History and the Hype …Background …1997 – Microsoft created Channel Definition Format for
the Active Channel feature of IE 4.01997 – David Winer designed an XML-based format for
syndication of his Scripting News weblog1999 – Dan Libby of Netscape created an XML-based
format for use with My Netscape Portal2002 – David Winer created RSS 2.0 and renamed the
format to Really Simple Syndication2003 – Aaron Swartz designed RSS 3.02003 – Atom specification developed
ticTOCS SSP – November 2007
How do you find it on a site?
Who Uses It and What Does it Look Like?
ticTOCS SSP – November 2007
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
- <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
<title>Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin current issue</title>
<link>http://psp.sagepub.com</link>
<description>Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin RSS feed -- current issue</description>
<prism:issn>0146-1672</prism:issn>
- <items>
- <rdf:Seq>
<rdf:li rdf:resource="http://psp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/31/10/1315?rss=1" /> </rdf:Seq>
</items>
- <title> <![CDATA[ Forgiveness and Its Associations With Prosocial Thinking, Feeling, and Doing Beyond the Relationship With the Offender ]]>
</title>
<link>http://psp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/31/10/1315?rss=1</link>
- <description> <![CDATA[ <p><I>Past research has revealed that forgiveness promotes prosocial cognition, feeling, and behavior toward the offender..</I></p> ]]>
</description>
<dc:creator>Karremans, J. C., Van Lange, P. A. M., Holland, R. W.</dc:creator>
<dc:date>2005-09-02</dc:date>
What Does Lightweight XML (RSS) Look Like?
ticTOCS SSP – November 2007
What does an RSS feed look like?
Who Uses It and What Does it Look Like?
ticTOCS SSP – November 2007
What does an RSS feed look like?
Who Uses It and What Does it Look Like?
ticTOCS SSP – November 2007
What is ticTOCs?• The aim of the ticTOCs project is to develop a
freely available service which will transform journal current awareness by making it easy for academics and researchers to find, display, store, combine and reuse tables of contents from multiple publishers in a personalisable web based environment.
• Facilitate the re-use of aggregated journal TOC content on a subject basis by gateways, subject-based resource discovery services, library services and others, where it can act as a showcase of the latest research output.
ticTOCS SSP – November 2007
What is ticTOCs?• JISC funded research project
• University, publisher, and third party backed development project and service
• Projected deployment of “basic” service in April 2008
ticTOCS SSP – November 2007
ticTOCs Partners
University of Liverpool Library (lead),
Oxford University Press
Heriot-Watt University SAGE
Cranfield University Institute of Physics
CrossRef Inderscience Publishers
ProQuest MIMAS
RefWorks Open J-Gate
Emerald Intute
Nature Publishing Group Directory of Open Access Journals
ticTOCS SSP – November 2007
What is ticTOCs? - Objectives• Create a ticTOCs web-based environment that allows
researchers to easily discover, subscribe to, search within, be alerted to, aggregate, personalise, export and reuse standardised Table of Contents RSS feeds and their content from any networked PC at their convenience
• To facilitate the exploitation and acquisition (via site license, subscription, open access or purchases) of the full text of articles discovered by users via ticTOCs, in the period shortly after their publication
• To facilitate the re-use of aggregated journal TOC content on a subject or topic basis by gateways, subject-based resource discovery services, library services, VREs and other services, where it can be exposed to a wider market, act as a showcase of the latest research output, and deliver relevant content to researchers.
ticTOCS SSP – November 2007
What is ticTOCs? - Objectives• To enable library and information services, publishers,
gateways, content aggregators and journal directories to allow their users to embed journal TOC RSS feeds of interest, with one click, into a freely available personalisable web-based interface which will perform as a current awareness environment.
• To create advocacy materials on journal TOC RSS standardisation, and thereby facilitate their interoperability and improve the quality of their data.
• To develop a business plan to maintain ticTOCs as a self-sustaining service, free to the individual end user, after the project phase
• To disseminate the findings of the project to ensure knowledge transfer
ticTOCS SSP – November 2007
ticTOCS SSP – November 2007
Sample screenshot of ticTOC service
ticTOCS SSP – November 2007
ticTOCs - Timelines• ticTOCs Stage 1. Initial Setup, first technical
development cycle, and Prototype. April 2007 to November 2007
• ticTOCs Stage 2. Prototype enhancement, service release, second technical development cycle, business model. Dec 2007 to June 2008
• ticTOCs Stage 3. Further development, innovative investigations. July 2008 to November 2008
• ticTOCs Stage 4. Integration of realistic innovative developments in third technical development cycle, further promotion, handover to self-sustaining service. December 2008 to March 2009.
ticTOCS SSP – November 2007
ticTOCs - Deliverables• Public blog to report on progress with the project• Prototype ticTOCs site• Content for reuse at third party sites• Advocacy materials on journal TOC RSS
standardisation• Sustainable business model• Full, public ticTOCs site• Promotional materials for launch of full ticTOCs service• Final report• Completion report
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Why participate?
• Researchers want to find content!
• Community/Social networking of RSS
• Usage of journal content (publisher)
• Service will be supported by publishing and library community
• Initial take-up and support is simple
• Emerging new standard that has the potential to change the way we use RSS
ticTOCS SSP – November 2007
Additional Resources:ticTOCs website: http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/
RSS and ticTOCs: http://www.slideshare.net/libram/journal-current-awareness-past-present-future
ticTOCs news: http://tictocsnews.wordpress.com/
ticTOCs review: http://www.rss4lib.com/2007/07/tictocs_journal_tables_of_cont.html
RSS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)
Project Manager for ticTOCs: Joe HiltonAddress: Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool, Chatham St, PO Box 123 Liverpool, United Kingdom, L69 3DA.Email: jo555@liverpool.ac.uk
ticTOCS SSP – November 2007
Thank you
John Shawjohn.shaw@sagepub.com
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