I’m giving a presentation this afternoon at the 2008 Upstate New York Science Librarians (UNYSL) meeting on “Creating Faculty Publication Lists from Scopus RSS Feeds”, in which I’ll do a short demonstration of transforming a search feed from Elsevier’s citation database, Scopus, into an on-the-fly publication “list” that can be embedded on a webpage. The technologies that I’m using include

• Yahoo Pipes – to modify the presentation of items in the feed so that they look more like article citations; to remove some administrative links that Scopus includes by default; and to add an EZproxy prefix to the link urls.
• FeedBurner – to create a more human-readable feed url than either of the hash-based urls that both Scopus and Pipes generate; to add in click-through tracking and feed subscription options; and to optimize the feed for presentation in a browser and for consumption by feed reader software.

My example in the presentation is, more-or-less, the “New Faculty Publications” widget that I’m using on my Chemistry Resources page. That widget is further enhanced from what I’ll be showing in this afternoon’s talk in that it also includes subscription by email and an RSS subscription chicklet, both from FeedBurner.

I’m making my presentation slides and notes available at SlideShare (download or see below) and I’m also sharing the 2-page PDF of my talk overview handout.