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ATA RSS Service
RSS is an abbreviation for (Rich Site Summary / Really ýSimple Syndication). It is a protocol based on the XML ýlanguage as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium ýý(W3C). It helps representing information about resources ýon the World Wide Web. It allows the Syndication of ýlists of hyperlinks along with other information or ýmetadata into formatted XML document. Once this ýdocument is compiled and registered with RSS Publisher ýSoftware(1) and published to a website, any user with ýRSS Aggregator Software(2) can view the document ýcontent. Also RSS can be used to share information ýamong websites where a website can allow other ýwebsites to publish some of its contents and so on.ý RSS content or (feeds) can be of any kind like news, ýweblog, marketing or any other activity involving ýperiodic updates or publication.ý
ATA RSS Implementation
Recently RSS became very popular on the internet, news ýagencies like Reuters, BBC and Technology Companies ýlike IBM and Microsoft along with thousands of other ýsites using RSS to publish information and make any ýactivities and/or updates on their websites about ýmarketing, news, new products, and even software bug ýreporting more quickly to their users or consumers. ýAs a result there are thousands of RSS feeds on the ýInternet which makes it somehow difficult for users to ýfind and subscribe to the desired feed. At ATA, a ýconvenient and easy to use solution has been ýimplemented to overcome this problem. The solution is a ýcomplete suite of client side application and web services ýto offer the user a search and Arabic translation of all ýnews feeds.ý
ATA RSS Solution (Ajil™ ýÚÇÌÜÜÜáý) has the following components ýand services:ý
• RSS Aggregator (News Reader),
• ýRSS publisher,ý
• ýRSS Repository Service,ý
• ýRSS Web Spiders,ý
• ýRSS Portal.ý
Ajil™ ýÚÇÌÜÜÜáý News Reader
This software application enables the users to:ý
• ýDownload Arabic translated RSS news feeds to their computers,ý
• ýView RSS news feeds,ý
• ýManage the RSS news feeds locally,ý
• ýSubscribe/unsubscribe to RSS news feeds,ý
• ýBrowse ATA RSS categories.ý
Also it has Alhoodhood Arabic search engine and Al- Mutarjim™ Al-Arabey, English-inýto-Arabic translator built in to facilitate powerful experience to Arabic ýusers.ý
Ajil™ ýÚÇÌÜÜÜá Publisher
This is a desktop application that enables news organizations such as newspapers and news agencies to publish their own Arabic or Arabic translated news on the Internet. The users can then subscribe to their Ajil™ RSS feed to receive news stories in Arabic.
Ajil™ ýÚÇÌÜÜÜá Repository Service
This is where all the RSS information is kept. This Repository is highly ýorganized to facilitate a fast access to a particular RSS item at any ýparticular time. The repository gets its content from automated RSS ýSpiders processors. On the other hand the repository implements RSS ýpublishers to allow Aggregators to browse categories and download ýitems. At the heart of this engine is an intelligent module to categorize ýRSS feeds update available list and make them available to subscribed ýusers. There are no interaction between this engine and the end user. This ýengine is hidden behind a User management website.ý
Glossary
ý(1) RSS Publisher ýSoftware is a program that facilitates the update and management of an RSS/XML ýdocument on websites. Once the document registered with publisher ýsoftware, website administrator can carry out the entire management task ýthrough the publisher tools and interface. Also there are some automated ýtypes of publisher where by the updating and management is database ýdriven.ý
ý(2) Aggregator Software is a program that can check a list of ýfeeds on behalf of a user and display any updated articles that it finds.ý