podcasts & rss Áine meehan it sligo

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>&#x2117; &amp; &#xA9; 2005 John Doe &amp; 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>meehan.aine@itsligo.ie</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 &amp; 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

Thanks

Go raibh maith agat

Contact Phone – 071 91 37218 E-mail –

meehan.aine@itsligo.ie

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