IL04: “building a case for web standards” & rss @ APL
The presenter was Dinah Sanders from III, the vendor of Aurora’s OPAC. She and I got to talking before the session about my wanting to get Aurora to use RSS feeds and whether or not those files can be placed on the library’s III server. According to Dinah it should be possible as long as we have FTP access which became available back in 2002. I asked her about the MIME-type issue, making sure that the RSS files are being served with an XML MIME-type, and she wasn’t sure. She’s going to look into it for me and I’m going to test it out. As for her presentation; the answer to the question “why standards?” is “consistency builds inter-operability.” I like that. I’m going and try to work that into the revision of the introduction to my XHTML/CSS book. I’ll provide a link to her presentation once it’s available online. (The presentation was done in Eric Meyer’s S5, not PowerPoint, which made her “slides” Web standard compliant, not just what she was talking about.
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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