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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/ > > -- > Eric Lease Morgan > University Libraries of Notre Dame > -- Edward Iglesias Integrated Library Systems Coordinator 504.864.7838 (work) 504.864.7842 (FAX)