RSS

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Entry
RSS
Area
Alerting Standards
Standard
RSS is a widely used standard for news feeds and content syndication. RSS provides a simple mechanism by which news can be described and made available. RSS alerts can be easily embedded in Web pages, aggregated by RSS aggregation tools, viewed in dedicated RSS readers, etc.
Standardisation
RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0 are both based on the XML Open standard. However the responsibility for the standardisation of RSS 1.0 and 2.0 is unclear and there does not seem to be a clear open roadmap for future developments of the formats.
Versions
Confusingly the term 'RSS' covers two separate formats. In RSS 1.0 the term standards for RDF Site Summary whereas in 'RSS 2.0' (which is a different, and not later, version to RSS 1.0) RSS standards for Really Simple Syndication.
Maturity
RSS is widely used, is simple to create and is a very powerful technology. However, despite its market success, the governance of RSS is confusing.
Risk Assessment
The competing approaches and confusion in the terminology can result in an inappropriate version of RSS being used. At present RSS readers can normally process both versions, but this may not be the case in future.
Take-up Elsewhere
RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0 are both widely used elsewhere.
Further Information
Author
Brian Kelly, UKOLN
Contributors
Date Created
1 June 2005. Updated 2 October 2006.
Version
v1.1

A standards entry for RSS is also available in the eReSS Wiki

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