Rich Site Summary (RSS) is a web content syndication format used to distribute millions of news headlines on the Web. It is of interest to the State because many, if not all, organizations in government need an easy way to publish rapidly changing news information. The State has a requirement to aggregate a variety of news sources from State Government and many other sources.

The goal is to provide solutions that agencies can use to locate, create, store, and serve up RSS channels. Additionally, it should be to enable web designers to quickly find, select, and include RSS feeds into their web sites.

Ray Matthews, Utah State Library Division, presented RSS information, development strategies, and tools. Matthews has researched and documented RSS extensively and he conducts RSS workshops at the Utah State Library. Visit the Library’s GILS site to read more about RSS or register for the next workshop.

Following Matthews, Steve Stalter, Division of Information Technology Services, demonstrated a mockup of a proposed State RSS application that would provide a “one-stop shop” for, among other things, gathering, creating, syndicating, and parsing RSS channels.