podcasts & rss Áine meehan it sligo
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Podcasts & RSS
Áine Meehan IT Sligohttp://library.itsligo.ie
Outline
Why Libraries? RSS Basics | Examples Podcast Basics | Examples Current Library Usage IT Sligo Usage How to do it Links for Later
Why Libraries
Students age - Used to new Technology Spice up information seen as “Boring” Distance Learners can tune in from home Visual, Quick , portable on demand Information Busy Lifestyle- Subscribe once, updates
automatically Library Content - suitable Information Literacy - Training Access to customisable Information –RSS Feeds
RSS Basics
“…RDF Site Summary, or Rich Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication – A lightweight XML format for distributing news headlines and other content on the Web.”
and in my words…
RSS allows you to access information you are interested in from the one place. It is like customizing an online newspaper to only show news you want to read. The owner syndicates the data, and you subscribe to it. The data automatically updates. You use a browser , a browser addon or a program to view the data.
www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm
RSS Format War
RSS = umbrella Term covers several different formats
Invented by Netscape Taken over by Userland Argued about by everyone finally Harvard Law-
Responsibility for version 2.0
3rd type of Feed - Atom
RSS- How to Read
Special piece of software - Called news reader, feedreader, or aggregator to display rss feeds. Download one or access online.
They gather all your feeds in one place.
Like a newspaper - more personalized, with all your feeds displaying within its pages.
BLOG
Journal | Newsletter | diary online that is frequently updated, and displayed in reverse chronological order. Most have rss feeds.
Blogroll- collection of web log feeds.
Examples:
Bebo | myspace | http://www.librarystuff.net/ Brooklyn College Library on MySpace Hennepin County Library on MySpace
Top RSS Readers- Microsoft Survey Sept 2006
1. Bloglines
2. Zhuaxia (Chinese)
3. Google Reader
4. GreatNews5. FeedDemon6. NetNewsWire7. IE7
8. Sage9. SharpReader10. Firefox Live Bookmarks
Access from any computer: Bloglines, Google Reader
From My computer: Download: Greatnews Online: ie7 Addon: Sage (Firefox)
Some Examples
Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com
Internet Explorer 7
Google Reader
Firefox- sage add on
University of Huddersfield - Cool
Horizon- perl script
Some Relevant Feeds
http://www.powells.com/rss/rad.xml (Powells Review a Day) http://info.sciencedirect.com/news/title_changes/title_alerts.xml (Science Direct
Title Alerts) http://www.ireland.com/feeds/rss/newspaper/sciencetoday.rss (Irish Times) http://www.guardian.co.uk/rssfeed/0,,15,00.xml (The Observer) http://timescolumns.typepad.com/stothard/atom.xml (Times Literary
Supplement) http://www.lisfeeds.com/ (Library Feeds) http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/rss/catalogablog.xml (Catalog a blog- all about
cataloguing) http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/atom.xml (Digitization feed) The Geek Librarian http://bonariabiancu.wordpress.com/feed/
Podcasts
Podcast Basics
A Podcast is not:
Video or audio on the internet
A Podcast is:
“… a media file which is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on portable media players and personal computers.”
Arthur, Charles and Jack Schofield. "Short shrift", The Guardian
You have to subscribe to it in the same way as an rss feed!
Podcasts- How to listen..view..read
Special piece of software called either a podcatcher, podcast receiver or aggregator.
Most Common- iTunes (Apple) Podspider - podcast client with integrated
podcast directory @Podder - a free podcast client designed for
the visually impaired.
Podcast Myths
Podcasts are audio files Nope - Podcasts can be any file format but they are
mainly audio. PDF Podcasts might be very suitable for training materials. Video Podcasts are usually called video podcasts, vidcasts or vodcasts. Audio Podcasts are usually mp3 files.
iTunes Store- Podcasts
My Podcasts on iTunes
Library UsageRSS & Podcasts
Podcast Examples
Trinity's Podcast Channel http://www.tcd.ie/podcasts/
Denver Public Library http://podcast.denverlibrary.org/
Ohio Libraries Podcast Tour http://www.library.ohiou.edu/vtour/podcast/
Curtin University of Tech - Guides http://library.curtin.edu.au/podcast/introductory.html
University of Sheffield audio library tours http://www.lbasg.group.shef.ac.uk/downloads/mainlibrary.html
University of Huddersfield (rss) http://webcat.hud.ac.u
Some Ideas
Tour of Library (used in museums) E-journal Updates (table of contents etc. ) User guides (pdf or video) Online training Book Reviews Marketing- Promotional (Library Week) Rss of new books Rss of search result Rss- Hot Topics! (top subject searches) Rss tag cloud of top borrowed books
IT Sligo Usage
We don’t have a Podcast
Webcast “The delivery of live or delayed sound or
video broadcasts using web technologies. The sound or video is captured by conventional video or audio systems. It is then digitized and streamed on a web server.”
www.liv.ac.uk/webteam/glossary/
Our Videos http://library.itsligo.ie
Why? Wake up Call We were asked to by an engineering lecturer who has
distance learning students.
Series of meetings About 10 Topics Advanced keyword search…advanced
database searching. Limit time of podcasts- 5 minute segments
What we wanted to do
Distance Learning
We will work to the following general layout for the online induction for Distance Learners.
Title Page – Welcome to the Library Summary of Library Resources and Services (incl. Opening Hours, Borrowing,
Contacts, Seminar Room, User Group Pages, ID Cards etc.) Access/Email setup/PIN Catalogue – Basic Catalogue – Advanced (Advanced Keyword, Preferred Searching etc.) Self Service (My Millennium, Computer Booking) ILL/Other Libraries Databases (Possibly divided into separate sections for each school) RSS,
Ebooks Quiz Troubleshooting (Firewall, Software/Links, Cookies/Java, Security)
What we have done - Podcast
Create a New Library PIN Basic Catalogue Searching
What we have done - RSS
How to do it
How we did it
The Technology
Camtasia Studio v Macromedia Breeze
Good Microphone Currently cheap and cheerful
Camtasia http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp
Breeze http://www.adobe.com/products/breeze/index.html
Decide what you want
Stream Ease of use, need broadband
Download Take away on pen drive or ipod
Subscribe Use itunes
Quicktime .mov Flash .flv or .swf Windows Media
RSS
Irish News Used http://feed2js.org/ Converted rss to Javascript It even added css (style) Pasted into web page
What you need
Hardware- mic with earphones Quiet Software- for recording Notepad | plain text editor – to create xml file Website to host it on Podcatching software (itunes ) Note- iTunes uses it’s own version of xml
enclosures
Here’s one I did earlier
http://www.itsligo.ie/YeatsWebsite/Video/movie.xml
In same folder
Podcasts - xml enclosures <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0"> <channel> <title>IT Sligo Library Example</title> <link>http://www.example.com/podcasts/everything/index.html</link> <language>en-us</language> <copyright>℗ & © 2005 John Doe & Family</copyright> <itunes:subtitle>Library PIN</itunes:subtitle> <itunes:author>Aine Meehan</itunes:author> <itunes:summary>Library help in creating a PIN.Look for future Podcasts in the iTunes Music Store</itunes:summary> <description>You need your library PIN in order to access online databases, apply for inter library loans etc. See how to get one here.
</description> <itunes:owner> <itunes:name>Aine Meehan</itunes:name> <itunes:email>[email protected]</itunes:email> </itunes:owner> <itunes:image href="http://library.itsligo.ie/screens/welcome.jpg" /> <itunes:category text="Library"> <itunes:category text="Education"/> </itunes:category> <itunes:category text="TV & Film"/> <item>
<title>PINS and Needles</title> <itunes:author>Library IT Sligo</itunes:author> <itunes:subtitle>Learn how to create your Library PIN</itunes:subtitle> <itunes:summary>This week we learn how to creat a Library PIN so we can interact with the website. </itunes:summary> <enclosure url="http://www.itsligo.ie/YeatsWebsite/Video/pin.mov" length="8727310" type="video/.mov" />
<guid>http://www.itsligo.ie/YeatsWebsite/Video/pin.mov</guid> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate> <itunes:duration>0:44.07</itunes:duration> <itunes:keywords>salt, pepper, shaker, exciting</itunes:keywords> </item> </channel> </rss>
Some Advice - Recording
Limit time of Videos Use a script Practice it a few times No background noise Good luck with audio settings!! Time Time Time Summer Project
IT Sligo Library Update
Using Google Calendar Room Booking | Sat Staff Rota | Tutorials
Using Google Docs RSS Podcasts- Gradually putting iTunes on all
Library Staff pc’s IE 7 on all staff pc’s Firefox on some http://del.icio.us/librarygeneric
Future
Add to webcasts, and syndicated them in iTunes We did this, and it worked – Took it down again
Package all our pdf guides in a Podcast Develop Podcast and RSS Training
For staff and students Web 2.0 training in general
Consider using a Library Blog
Podcast Glossary podmercial – advertisement on a podcast Podnography – I will leave it to your imagination Podsafe – copyright free music Poddite - Member of the radio media who destroys podcasting equipment in a belief
that such machinery would diminish employment. Underpodder - A back up podcaster position ready to take over in case the lead
podcaster is unable to fulfill their duties. Podfellow - A friend in the podosphere. Podunk - A small and uninfluential podcast. Podacious - A recklessly bold podcast. Podience - Listeners. Podible - Anything that can be heard over a podcast. Podio - The sound output of a podcast. Podacious - An outrageous claim delivered via a podcast. Podition - A trial podcast. Poditorium - Wherever you listen to your podcast when not using headphones.
About URL
RSS HISTORY http://goatee.net/2003/rss-history.html
ATOM http://www.atomenabled.org
RSS The myth of RSS compatibility - Mark Pilgrim
Sage http://sage.mozdev.org/
Ie 7 rss help http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/ie7/tour/rss/
Make podcast http://web.mit.edu/ist/podcasts/makepodcast.html
podcast for itunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcaststechspecs.html
Pdf podcast http://digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=48529
Podcatcher comparison
http://www.podcatchermatrix.org/
Pod catcher list http://www.podcastingnews.com/topics/Podcast_Software.html
podcasts http://forevergeek.com/geek_articles/beginners_guide_to_podcasts_and_podcasting_plus_how_to_create_a_basic_podcast_of_your_own.php **good
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