Set up your XML Newsfeed

Help is available below for filling out the form and using the resulting Newsfeed.

Terms and conditions

By clicking submit, you are agreeing to the following:

to not on-sell this content for profit in any way;
to always provide a link to the Newsroom of "Europe's Information Society: Thematic Portal" alongside any Newsfeed content on your site (the XML Newsfeed itself includes the link, which should therefore be used unless you introduce the link elsewhere in an equivalent manner);
the Commission will not be held responsible for any cessation of service.

Failure to follow these conditions will result in the service being terminated.

By ticking this box I am agreeing to the above conditions

Newsfeed Type:	CompactFeed FullFeed
Content Type:	Event Library item News Article Speech
Press releases only:	(check if you want ONLY official press releases)
Themes: [check all] [uncheck all]	Culture & Society Economy & Work Education & Training IS Industry IS Research Quality of Life Regions/World
Number:	Number of items in Feed (maximum = 50)

Help on Filling in the Form

The form allows you to specify both what Newsroom content appears on your site (Newsfeed Criteria), and how it appears (Newsfeed Type). Help on using the Newsfeed created by the Form is covered below.

Newsfeed Type

There are two types of XML Newsfeeds

CompactFeed: supplies just the short title of the newsroom items and a link to the full item on this Portal's Newsroom, from where more information is available;
FullFeed: supplies the news items' short and full titles (up to ?? characters), introductory paragraph, other information ('More Info', 'Contact Details', etc.) and the main link. In most cases the main link will point to a page outside the portal, as with most items published within the Portal Newsroom itself (see Help > Searching the Newsroom > What is Searched?).

Newsfeed Criteria

Content Type: what sort of content do you want appearing? (more information: Help > Searching the Newsroom > What are the Types?)
Press releases: if you check this box, your selection will only contain official press releases from the RAPID press service.
Number: select the number of items you want in your Newsfeed.

Using your XML Newsfeed

After clicking 'Submit' in the above form, you will be sent to the 'Edit Profile' page:

the first part of this page ('Your XML Feed') will include a ...??
the rest of the page allows you to edit other aspects of your registration profile on this Portal (e.g., subscribing to the email Newsroom Update or journalist service, changing your personal details, etc.)

XML File Content

The following information can be found:

in the CompactFeed XML file:

Information_society newsroom _url : url of information Society Newsroom
Reference_url: URL of the generated xml page
id: unique number assigned to the item in our database (primary key)
type: type of the item (news article, event, speech, library item)
date_from: date of the item (or start date of an event)
date_to: end date (for an event)
press_release: yes/no (indicates if the item is a press release)
commission_event: yes/no (for event: indicates if the event is a European Commission event)
subtype: subtype of the item (brochure, calls and workprogrammes, policy and legislation, report and studies for library items only)
location: URL of the item
title: title of the item
teaser: teaser of the item
contact:
- contact_url: URL of the contact (can be either a link to a page or to an e-mail address)
- contact_text: text of the contact link (can be the same as the contact URL)
link:
- link_url: link (can be either a link to a page or to an e-mail address)
- link_text: text of the link (can be the same as the URL link)
tpa: name of the themes (t), policies (p) or activities (a) concerned by this item
type: type of the TPA (theme, policy or activity)

in the FullFeed XML file:

Information_society newsroom _url : url of information Society Newsroom
Reference_url: URL of the generated xml page
id: unique number assigned to the item in our database (primary key)
type: type of the item (news article, event, speech, library item)
date_from: date of the item (or start date of an event)
date_to: end date (for an event)
press_release: yes/no (indicates if the item is a press release)
commission_event: yes/no (for event: indicates if the event is a European Commission event)
subtype: subtype of the item (brochure, calls and workprogrammes, policy and legislation, report and studies for library items only)
location: URL of the item
title: title of the item
teaser: teaser of the item
contact:
- contact_url: URL of the contact (can be either a link to a page or to an e-mail address)
- contact_text: text of the contact link (can be the same as the contact URL)
link:
- link_url: link (can be either a link to a page or to an e-mail address)
- link_text: text of the link (can be the same as the URL link)
tpa: name of the themes (t), policies (p) or activities (a) concerned by this item
type: type of the TPA (theme, policy or activity)