Guidelines

 
  • 01 - How to create a feed

    Every day more and more Web sites are making their content available using "web feeds". Feeds provide an easy method for creators to syndicate content and for consumers to keep up-to-date with their favourite sites without having to go to individual sites. Web feeds normally contains a short summary of content from a Web site and a link to the full article or more information. Web feeds can either be of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) or ATOM formats. Both formats are expressed in XML.

  • 02 - How to submit a feed

    In order to submit a feed to AgriFeeds, you need to create an account on this website.

  • 03 - Using additional namespaces and why

    The basic RSS and Atom metadata sets are generic because their scope is general. However, both formats can be extended using additional namespaces to include more specific and informative metadata. AgriFeeds uses AgMES namespace to extend the feeds.
    For the information to be parsed (read correctly) and provided to the users with better services, the following basic guidelines should be taken into account.
    News feeds

  • 04 - How to be sure that a feed is accepted by AgriFeeds

    Before submitting feeds to AgriFeeds, please make sure that they validate against the Feed Validator. This is essential.

    In addition to the basic requirements of an RSS feed, the following elements are mandatory:

    A)
    • (RSS) Title
    • (RSS) Link
    • (RSS) Description
    • (RSS) pubDate

    Besides, in items describing events the following additional elements/refinements are mandatory:

  • 05 - What is the minimum set of metadata required to make a valid Event feed?

    The Event Application Profile provides elements that describe event in detail. However, not everyone can provide all the information. Therefore, the most important fields when creating an Events feed are:

  • 06 - In addition to the mandatory elements, which other elements can be understood by AgriFeeds?

    AgriFeeds accepts the following elements:
     From AGS:
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