Comments on: Syndicating archives blogs

By: thesecretmirror.com » Announcing ArchivesBlogs

thesecretmirror.com » Announcing ArchivesBlogs — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:32:46 +0000

[...] Since my last post about syndicating blogs about archives, I’ve played around with the idea and different software packages to do it, including Planet and Plagger. I’m happy to announce that after a few days work I was able to put something together. [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:31:45 +0000

I’ve set up a sample Planet instance at http://thesecretmirror.com/planet/ . It’s just got two blogs at the moment (mine and archivemati.ca). It can export to just about anything (RSS, OPML, HTML) since it’s designed to run on templates. It’s pretty fast, I guess. The script isn’t run from the web – it needs to be called via cron.

By: Andrew Bangert

Andrew Bangert — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:25:22 +0000

SIclops is going to move soon, to where it will stay (and split into a development and production sites), but is currently: http://si.umich.edu/saa/siclops/

If you start playing around with Planet, I’d like to see any documentation of your efforts that you’re willing to put out there. It was what I was originally going to use after seeing it in effect at http://www.slisblogs.com.

By: Andrew Bangert

Andrew Bangert — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:20:40 +0000

For a Drupal example, I’ve been aggregating most of those blogs for our chapter of SAA (the rest of the site needs some work): http://si.umich.edu/saa/?q=archivists

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:16:46 +0000

I am willing to play around with Planet for the heck of it. I know Drupal has this functionality so that would make sense. I actually meant to mention SIclops in this, too, but it slipped my mind. If Planet can easily import/export something like OPML, then getting it to play nicely with other community portals/CMS instances would be pretty easy too.

By: Andrew Bangert

Andrew Bangert — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 21:05:46 +0000

I had been planning to do this with Drupal (because I don’t know how to set up Planet and because using Drupal would mean it could easily be extended to offer other staples of online community). I would have set it up for SAA if there had been wireless. I’m about to have some time on my hands…