We have been asked to provide some data to support a competition at this year’s IWMW. As a result we’ve carried out some work to make the University’s search results available in a variety of formats. A form available on our website demonstrates the formats that are available.

We also decided to get together a list of the places where we made data available that could be reused or re-purposed by anyone who is interested. In most of our services we now consider RSS or Atom as a minimum:

• News RSS or Atom
• News RSS or Atom by channel
• Public lecture podcasts
• Feed of University videos
• Events RSS, Atom, OPML, embeddable JavaScript, HTML snippet
• Academic year diary in iCal

Some examples of microformats that can be found around our site:

• Web Services – hCard
• Staff Directory – hCard
• What’s On – hCal

Hopefully people will find some interesting ways of using this data and we might see some opportunities to build on this in the future.