Research e-Labs

The State Services Commission has published an updated Government feed standard based on Atom. Currently in draft for consultation until 13th August 2008, this will replace the 2003 e-GIF RDF specification for New Zealand Government feeds.

I gave a presentation Feeds for Thought in June for the Government Web Community covering trends around feeds, microformats and the web slice. The presentation has been updated and is relevant as collateral to the draft 2008 NZ Government Feed Standard.

Web feeds - also known as Atom or RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds - allow you to read and keep up to date with new content from multiple sources (websites, blogs, wikis etc).