Scheme info / news via Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

The Portable Antiquities Scheme is now offering a variety of news feed in XML format. These are commonly known as Really Simple Syndication feeds (RSS). This is a simple way of deploying our news, stories and artefact data, without having to directly visit our site. If you subscribe to a RSS news feed, you will get an alert telling you that a new item has been added to the systems that we use. If it interests you, then you can visit our page via one click.

We currently offer the following RSS feeds:

General feeds

News feed
Events listing feed
Our Flickr feed (RSS) | Flickr GeoRSS | Flickr KML
Our Flickr comments feed
Vacancies feed
PASt explorers articles
Blog postings feed
Blog comments feed
Finds of note feed
All finds created since January 2006
Multiuser blogs feed

Database specific feeds - geographical

These feeds are created directly from the database and are set to return items with images only. If you want to create your own follow this tutorial.

Database specific Period feeds

To view these feeds, you will need a RSS feed reader, there are many out there and we recommend utilising a freeware version. Several examples are given below, and you can also utilise browsers such as Mozilla firefox to read these feeds.

Firefox has lots of freely downloadable extensions that allow you to read RSS feeds, Internet Explorer and Safari also integrate auto discovery. If you see an orange icon in your address bar, then a feed is available from that site. You can also integrate these feeds directly into your website with some open source solutions. These include javascript and php parsing.

RSS software
	Mac OS X: NetNewsWire This elegant Mac-like aggregator is easy to use and powerful.
	Windows: SharpReader Simple, but gets the job done. This needs .net Framework installed on your pc, so if you run Win XP, make sure you are using current service pack 2.
	Linux: Straw The best aggregator for GNOME.

If you would like to talk further about the use or syndication of these feeds, then please get in touch with our ICT Adviser, Dan Pett. Alternatively just give us a call!

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