ticTOCs
Status: Completed Feb 2009.
Background
The aim of the ticTOCs project is to develop a freely available service which will transform journal current awareness by making it easy for academics and researchers to find, display, store, combine and reuse tables of contents from multiple publishers in a personalisable web based environment. JISC is the primary funder of the ticTOCs project, which will run for two years from April 2007.
My Role
My duties for the ticTOCs project include:
- Project support
- Technical Support
- Background research on RSS, Atom, Aggregators, OPML, Ajax, chicklets and reuse of aggregated content.
- Assisiting in specifying functional requirements
- Testing, evalution, usability, questionnaire, feedback
- Identification of RSS TOCS
- Advocacy Work
Publications
- Recommendations on RSS Feeds for Scholarly Publishers
- Rogers LJ, Hodson S, MacLeod R (2009) Transforming Current Awareness Through RSS: How two projects (ticTOCs and Gold Dust) are using RSS to improve the information landscape for the 21st century researcher
Presented at -
European Library Automation Conference (ELAG) 2009 "New Tools of the Trade"
- Rogers, L (2008) RSS and Scholarly Journal Tables of Contents: the ticTOCs Project, and Good Practice Guidelines for Publishers [Local Copy]
- Advanced Uses of RSS Feeds and a look at the Future
Presented at -
RSS, Blogging and Podcasting - The Future of Current Awareness
A workshop for publishers and information producers in the social services
31st October 2008 at Glasgow Caledonian University
Useful Links:
- ticTOCs Website (ticTOCs beta 2.0 was released on 2nd June 2008)
- ticTOCs News
- JISC