Well there have been some postings recently on SIRSI adopting RSS
technology. See
http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2005/01/19/sirsi_breaks_open_the_rss_flood_gates.html
Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> On Jan 26, 2005, at 9:48 AM, Walter Lewis wrote:
>
>> We had been kicking this around at a couple of points last year around
>> here. Could RSS, essentially a broadcast technology, be fit into a
>> narrowcast mode, one feed per customer. Given that challenges to email
>> notification, I keep looking for alternatives. Here's a blog entry
>> proposing it.
>
>
> If I understand the concept, I have tried to do this as a part of the
> (incomplete) Ockham Alerting Service. The Service allows you to query
> an index, and the search results are then available as HTML, email, or
> an RSS feed. When the content in the index gets refreshed, the RSS feed
> will return different results every time. The operative word here is
> "when". See:
>
> http://alert.ockham.org/
>
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> Eric Lease Morgan
> University Libraries of Notre Dame
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