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In this page: What is RSS? How to read a RSS feed? A brief history of RSS

What is RSS?

RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0).

It is a conventional, rather widely accepted way of publishing or exchanging information on the Internet, which keeps the data's meaning between applications.

RSS is a way for any resource available on the Web to be qualified by its metadata (information that describes information). For instance, an article is usually described by its author, title, abstract, publishing date, copyright, while an item available for purchase on an on-line shopping site is better represented by its description, price, and availability.

Because this qualification is independent from the object it qualifies, RSS can represent information about anything available on the Web, although it is current and mainly used to publish articles on-line.

How to read a RSS Feed?

A RSS Feed is basically a RSS-formatted file available on a web site, ready to be retrieved by a tool acting as a reader. This reader can be either a standalone or web-based application:

We publish daily our technology research articles through our RSS feed:
Technology News Feed

A brief history of RSS

Netscape gave birth to RSS as Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.90) in 1999.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standardized it later in 2000 as RDF Site Summary (RSS 1.0). Resource Description Framework (RDF) was the initial language for qualifying any resource available on the Web by its metadata.

Then in 2003, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School released Real Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0), which took its name from the specific application and extension of the RDF Site Summary protocol to the process of publishing on-line content information, mainly, but not restricted to, articles and discussion messages.