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You might try out MedWorm too

frankie — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:17:08 -0500

A nice introduction to Yahoo Pipes. You might also try out MedWorm which allows you to create RSS feeds from queries on its sources - which currently includes over 5000 medically related RSS feeds (sorry, I too am recommending my own site - which is where I came across this posting, since I like to keep a check on blog postings tagged with 'RSS' - I hope you may excuse this since the site is highly relevant to this posting).

Scintilla

alf — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:43:28 -0500

For the science side of things you could give Scintilla a try (sorry for plugging my own site, but it is designed for this kind of thing: if it doesn't suit the way you work then let me know).

that works too,,,

agbiotec — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:58:15 -0500

,,, but on a second thought, with the Pipes you can mashup and filter RSS from any source,,, so in addition to having keyword-filtered articles from papers, you can also have blog posts, newgroups and whatever else RSS content cleansed and delivered all in a single feed,,, I guess you could also do that by searching within Google reader after you aggregate your feeds there,,,

What about PubMed?

dbtodd — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:32:41 -0500

If your articles of interest are there of course (and a big if here). I have a couple saved searches in PubMed and subscribe to the feeds for those searches. One of these is a long list of scientists in my field for example. I subscribe using Google Reader so new papers come through every day and scanning through them in Reader is much easier than using PubMed directly. I then use a set of labels to prioritize articles for follow up and importing into the excellent pdf manager Papers.

Pipes are pretty nifty

pwnedd — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:33:28 -0500

Pipes are pretty nifty indeed. I created one for the same purpose myself a little while back for filtering items from a few different journals. I've since thought of an even easier way to search through a large number of journal feeds, but have not had the time to blog about it lately because I've been so caught-up in school work. Basically though, the idea is to combine google reader + yahoo pipes. Yahoo pipes is powerful, but it is a pain to handle a high number of feeds. It is very easy to add feeds to google reader however, so rather than adding the feeds directly to yahoo pipes, you could instead create a google reader account just for journal feeds. Give them all a tag like "article," and then feed your google reader "article" feed (which will include all items from all of the journals) into Yahoo pipes. This way you will only have to deal with a single feed in Yahoo pipes, and adding new journals becomes trivial.

Not bad, huh? :)
Keith

Piggy-Bank

alf — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:47:06 -0400

Yes, Piggy-Bank could be useful if it didn't have that bug (which might actually be a Firefox bug) that destroys your browsing within 10 minutes. The developers know about it, anyway.

I'd say use Piggy-Bank to bookmark for now. Hopefully, you'll be storing the data as well as the metadata in most cases.

Piggy-Bank

Greg — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 23:45:55 -0400

Excellent. At the moment I can't think of a killer demonstration of why RDF is a good thing for biology, however RSS 1.0 feeds from pubmed and abstract RDF export are a good start.

I tried Piggy-Bank with hublog RDF export as soon as I saw your post about it on hublog. I eventually had to nuke the extension as it was starting to cause Firefox to slow down to a crawl.

As an idle thought I'm still not sure I'm keen to have metadata itself as the focus of an application. Do I use Piggy-bank to bookmark, collect citation data, sequence data ? Or special purpose applications that also produce metadata ?

I guess I should also put my money where my mouth is and start adding tagging, RSS 1.0 and RDF dumps of posts on nodalpoint...

RDF

alf — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 10:51:05 -0400

I've recently added RSS 1.0 feeds to HubMed - here's an example feed.

You can also export RDF from abstract display pages, for use with tools like Piggy-Bank (which picks up the links automatically) - here's an example of one of those items.

I don't know...

Anonymous — Tue, 24 May 2005 10:27:42 -0400

It's been almost 20 days since that post, haven't seen any changes yet. They didn't give a specific time frame, just said 'real soon now'.