This is an early access version, made available for early
testing and evaluation.
Introduction
The Z39.86-2010 Newsfeed Aggregator Profile is intended to serve as an XML republishing format
for syndicated web content, primarily news.
The profile intends to capture input sources served in formats such as NewsML, Atom, NITF and
RSS in a single format.
The Profile has been designed to address the following contexts:
- Newspaper and Magazine vendors wanting to supply an entire publication in a light-weight XML
grammar.
- Newspaper and Magazine vendors wanting to supply a single article, or a collection of
articles from a publication in a light-weight XML grammar.
- Newspaper and Magazine vendors wanting to supply a single article, or a collection of
articles from different publications in a light-weight XML grammar.
- Organisations wanting to convert all their incoming electronic feeds into a light-weight XML
grammar.
- Organisations wanting to aggregate individual articles into one or more publications using a
light-weight XML grammar.
Although the profile is primarily intended to be used in automated aggregation and republishing
contexts, it does not exclude use in manual authoring environments.
Normative References
Identity URI
The canonical identity URI of this version of this profile is
http://www.daisy.org/z3986/2010/auth/profiles/newsfeeds/0.2/.
Normative schemata
The normative schema of this profile is
z3986a-newsfeeds.rng (version 0.2).
The normative schema includes a number of modules and/or
subschemas, which are listed in Appendix 1.
The latest version of the normative schema is available at the canonical URI
http://www.daisy.org/z3986/2010/schema/z3986a-newsfeeds.rng.
A listing of all public versions of this profile is available.
The following is an explanation of the specific metadata properties used by this profile, as
defined normatively in the Z39.86 Periodicals
Vocabulary.
- Edition
- Appears in the document head; holds information about the edition of the publication being
delivered by the particular Feeds profile instance document; is only relevant in instances where
the particular Feeds profile instance document is being used to deliver an entire
publication.
- positionSection
- Appears in the Article head; holds ordinal information about the parent section and or sub
section(s) within a pubblication, that an article appears in. for example, a value of 1.2 means
that an article appears in a section that is the first section in the publication, and a sub
section that is the second subsection within the section;is only relevant in instances where the
particular Feeds profile instance document is being used to deliver a single article, or a
collection of articles for one or more publications.
- positionSequence
- Appears in the Article head; holds ordinal information about the article within its parent
section/sub section. for example, a value of 2 means that the article is the second article in
its parent section/sub section; is only relevant in instances where the Feeds Profile instance
document is being used to deliver a single article, or a collection of articles for one or more
publications.
- kicker
- appears in the Article head; holds a piece of text that draws attention towards the article;
is relevant in all contexts.
- positionPage
- appears in the Article head; holds information about the page that the article appears on in
the publication; is only relevant in instances where the Feeds Profile document instance is
being used to deliver a single article, or a collection of articles for one or more
publications.
- Revision
- appears in the Article head; holds revision information about the article; is relevant in
instances where the Feeds Profile instance document is being used to deliver a single article,
or a collection of articles for one or more publications.
- destEdition
- Appears in the article head; holds information about an edition of a publication that the
article is meant to appear in; is only relevant in instances where the Feeds Profile instance
document is being used to deliver a single article, or a collection of articles for one or more
publications; can appear more than once inside the Article head; each occurrence of destEdition
holds information about a particular edition of a publication that the article is meant to
appear in.
- destPublication
- appears in the Article head; holds information about a publication that the article is meant
to appear in; is only relevant in contexts where the Feeds profile instance document is being
used to deliver a single article, or a collection of articles for one or more publications; can
appear more than once inside the Article head; each occurrence of destPublication holds
information about a particular publication that the article is meant to appear in.
- sourceEdition
- Appears in the article head; holds information about an edition of a publication that the
article is originally a part of; is only relevant in instances where the Feeds Profile instance
document is being used to deliver a single article, or a collection of articles for one or more
publications; can appear more than once inside the Article head; each occurrence of
sourceEdition holds information about a particular edition of a publication that the article is
originally a part of.
- sourcePublication
- appears in the Article head; holds information about a publication that the article is
originally a part of; is only relevant in contexts where the Feeds profile instance document is
being used to deliver a single article, or a collection of articles for one or more
publications; can appear more than once inside the Article head; each occurrence of
sourcePublication holds information about a particular publication that the article is
originally a part of.
Supported Features
This profile supports the following optional features: