Guidelines

01 - How to create a feed

Every day more and more Web sites are making their content available using "web feeds". Feeds provide an easy method for creators to syndicate content and for consumers to keep up-to-date with their favourite sites without having to go to individual sites. Web feeds normally contains a short summary of content from a Web site and a link to the full article or more information. Web feeds can either be of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) or ATOM formats. Both formats are expressed in...

02 - How to submit a feed

In order to submit a feed to AgriFeeds, you need to create an account on this website.

Once logged in, click on "Contribute" in the "Account" menu.
Select the type of content you want to contribute either a "news" or "event" feed. For feeds, be careful to select the correct type: please only select "Feed of events" if your feed complies with the following: - RSS format (1.0 or 2.0 or Atom) extended with the elements...

03 - Using additional namespaces and why

The basic RSS and Atom metadata sets are generic because their scope is general. However, both formats can be extended using additional namespaces to include more specific and informative metadata. AgriFeeds uses AgMES namespace to extend the feeds.
For the information to be parsed (read correctly) and provided to the users with better services, the following basic guidelines should be taken into account.

News feeds

Include all the basic required metadata for RSS or...

Before submitting feeds to AgriFeeds, please make sure that they validate against the Feed Validator. This is essential.

In addition to the basic requirements of an RSS feed, the following elements are mandatory:

A)
• (RSS) Title
• (RSS) Link
• (RSS) Description
• (RSS) pubDate

Besides, in items describing events the following additional elements/...

The Event Application Profile provides elements that describe event in detail. However, not everyone can provide all the information. Therefore, the most important fields when creating an Events feed are:

ags:dateStart
ags:dateEnd
ags:location (ags:locationCity, ags:locationCountry)

For example, see a ...

AgriFeeds accepts the following elements:
From AGS:
<ags:organizer>Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR)</ags:organizer>

From DC:

<dc:title xml:lang="en">Inter-Regional Consultation on ICM4ARD</dc:title>
<dc:description xml:lang="en">2007-09-26 - 2007-09-26 Rome,...