Aggregating pipes!

I’ve been experimenting with filtering RSS feeds using Yahoo pipes, as a method to search across Academy subject centres & JISC. There aren’t many subject centres with RSS feeds from them. Anyhoo, I took a few other web sites that may prove interesting to academics searching for resources, namely:

• http://www.engsc.ac.uk/rssfeeds/rss091resnewest.asp

• http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/escalate/resources?count=15

• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/rss_feeds/collections_catalogue_web_feed.aspx

• http://www.intute.ac.uk/rss/intutelatest.xml

• http://obelix.lib.hku.hk/cdblog/?feed=rss2&cat=33

• http://obelix.lib.hku.hk/cdblog/?feed=rss2&cat=35

• http://www.opendoar.org/search.php?cx=016766439200934687091%3Aln-icm1qyko&q=economics&sa=Search&cof=FORID%3A11&filter=0#978

• http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/videos?q=psycology&client=ytapi-youtube-search&alt=rss&v=2

• http://www.videojug.com/tag/sports-medicine/rss

• http://feeds.technorati.com/search/learning+theory?language=n

• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Economics&feed=rss&action=history

• http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/deliboy/resources?count=15

• http://www.innovateonline.info/innovate.rss

• http://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.xml?keywords=blended


Then I added a search filter (i.e., blended, injury, economic, ) to the next stage of the process & the results are at URL:

http://bit.ly/subject-search

So, the idea was to try and find as many resource portals or RSS feeds then use a methods such as pipes to apply subject specific filters (that was my “injury”, “blended” filters). So each subject centre could take a core set of feeds from JISC, HEA, Merlot, OU, Open courseware, etc, then create their own specific feed/ search?

The other way of running this is to use a search box as the initial filter:

http://bit.ly/type-search

This search is a clone of a Yahoo pipes search that someone had already done. I used the above list of feeds, and it kind of works? Has anyone done anything similar?



p.s. http://bit.ly/ is a useful URL shortener with added options to track click throughs, etc. Well worth a look.