Innovative Interfaces provides more details about their new RSS capabilities, according to a press release published earlier this week and discussed in an earlier RSS4Lib posting.
The new RSS tools will be included in the 2006LE version of Millennium, scheduled for release in late 2005. According to the press release, there are two significant RSS tools:
- Incoming RSS Feeds Library staff will be able to insert RSS feeds directly into catalog page templates. It will be possible to use any RSS feed (library news, campus news, weblogs, etc.). Staff can customize the display to fit in with the look and feel of the catalog and select from headline-only or add summaries and modified dates.
- Outgoing RSS Feeds Any Boolean search in Millennium can be turned into an RSS feed using Feed Builder. This is the big news! “[T] he most recent information about a particular subject, publisher, author, or items at a certain location” can be distributed via RSS to patrons, other web pages, or other web sites. In addition, “library staff can also create special review files that Feed Builder will transmit to anywhere in cyberspace regarding special topics such as award winning books, library staff picks, books by local authors, or any other topic of interest.”
Perhaps I was too pessimistic in my previous post; if Millenniuim keeps to its release schedule, this will be available sooner than I thought.
Now if only Innovative would add an RSS feed to their press releases page…
[Via Peter Scott’s Library Blog.]