RSS Merger

Semantic-based Merging of RSS Items

Merging XML documents can be of key importance in several applications. For instance, merging the RSS news from same or different sources and providers can be beneficial for end-users in various scenarios. In this paper, we address this issue and explore the relatedness measure between RSS elements. We show here how to define and compute exclusive relations between any two elements and provide several predefined merging operators that can be extended and adapted to human needs. We also provide a set of experiments conducted to validate our approach. © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009.

Semantic-aware news feeds management framework

In the Web, RSS and Atom (feeds) are probably the most popular and highly utilized XML formats which allow web communities, publishing industries, web services, etc. to publish and exchange XML documents. In addition, they allow a user to consume data/information easily without roaming from site to site using software applications. Here, the user registers her favorite feed providers; and each provider sends the list of news items changed since the last download. However, registering a number of feed sources in feed aggregators cause both heterogeneity and information overloading problems. Besides, none of the existing RSS/feed aggregators provide an approach that integrates (merges) feeds …

Semantic aware RSS query algebra

International audience; Existing XML query algebras are not fully appropriate to retrieve RSS news items mainly due to three reasons: 1) RSS is text rich and its content is dependent on the wording and verbification of the author, thus semantic aware operators are needed; 2) news items are dynamic and consequently time oriented retrieval is needed; 3) a news item may evolve through time, or overlap with other news items and hence identifying relationships between items is also needed. In this paper, we aim to solve these issues by providing a dedicated RSS algebra based on semantic-aware operators that consider RSS characteristics. The provided operators are application domain specific and …