Publications: RSS feed

By providing an RSS feed for articles, it is possible to include metadata for each feed item, i.e. an article or a publication. The downside of classical RSS feeds is that they only provide access to the last published articles – usually around 10–25. This is why we recommend to additionally provide an archive of all available publications.

There are several competing RSS standards and extensions to encode publication metadata, but they boil down to two options:
 - RSS2: very basic metadata aligned to Dublin Core
 - RSS 1.0: RDF-based feed paired with the Content and Prism extension to encode details about publications

The recommendation is to use rdf-based RSS1.0 with PRISM, if possible. As RSS2 is less expressive, it should only be used when there are no resources available to provide RSS1.0.

The Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM) specification  defines a standard for interoperable content description, interchange and reuse in both traditional and electronic publishing contexts.

See Good Practice Guidelines for Publishers of TOC RSS feeds for more details.