On 30 May the RHSV podcast pages were connected to the RHSV website. Initially four podcasts were included with a fifth added shortly afterwards - RHSV Podcasts.
The first podcasts made available online were RHSV lectures. A walking tour guide is also being prepared.
The talks were recorded using a clip on microphone connected to a small digital recorder. The files were edited in Audacity, saved as MP3 files and further compressed using MP3Tweak. Realising that many of the members live in country areas without broadband it is necessary to keep the files as small as possible.
An RSS button is provided enabling users wanting to use RSS to cut and paste the URL into their podcast or feed-reading software.
A Help page providing basic information about podcasts is provided.
Users can listen to audio files directly online or download the audio file to listen to on their computer or protable digital player.
Undertaking this project was a challenge and to some extent trial and error until a system was devised that appears to work on the most commonly used browsers.
A record of the project was recorded in the Information technology and local history blog.
Showing posts with label RSS feeds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RSS feeds. Show all posts
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Usefulness of RSS
Some time a go I attended a session where a staff member from a newsagency described how staff collected news items on specific subjects for subscribers to access using RSS newsreaders. The session was very technical dealing with xhtml , xml as well as rss and I left being impressed at what could be achieved but confused by the process and the jargon.
Since then I have tended to put rss , xml etc into the 'will look at this later' category. However recently I was asked about adding podcasts to a website and started to look seriously at using rss as a means of alerting users to the site that a new podcast had been added. This exercise therefore came at the right time for me as experimenting with Bloglines has demonstrated the usefulness of adding RSS to a site where the content is regularly changing.
RSS is becoming more accessible with the latest version of browsers including functions to read RSS feeds. RSS will no doubt become a standard feature on websites with changing content - though in my searching I was surprised at a number of the large cultural institutions not already doing this.
Since then I have tended to put rss , xml etc into the 'will look at this later' category. However recently I was asked about adding podcasts to a website and started to look seriously at using rss as a means of alerting users to the site that a new podcast had been added. This exercise therefore came at the right time for me as experimenting with Bloglines has demonstrated the usefulness of adding RSS to a site where the content is regularly changing.
RSS is becoming more accessible with the latest version of browsers including functions to read RSS feeds. RSS will no doubt become a standard feature on websites with changing content - though in my searching I was surprised at a number of the large cultural institutions not already doing this.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
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