Providing news to the EUROFOREST Portal

Instructions

The EUROFOREST Portal offers a channel for information providers to get more visibility for their news. If you are presenting a qualified source for forestry news for this portal, please send your request to register to this service. See further details of the registration procedure.

The EUROFOREST Portal concerns any forestry information relevant in a European context. Please notice that we do not publish information on jobs or events: for these please check the EFI and GFIS web sites. The news can include, but is not limited to, information about forest resources, forest policy processes and decisions, institutions that are involved in forestry, or topical publications. EUROFOREST Portal publishes news in English. EFI reserves the rights to choose materials to be published.

Description about RSS information and an example feed

The system is based on the RSS 2.0 Specification . The EUROFOREST Portal feeds must be created using the UTF-8 character set. The following example shows how to create a feed for the EUROFOREST Portal. 

NOTES

• The feed must be created using the UTF-8 character set and the first line in the RSS feed (the XML declaration) must include the character set encoding definition.
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
• The second line (the RSS 2.0 declaration) must contain the XML namespace definition if elements of the DCMI Element Set are used.
  <rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
• All items in a feed must be of the same information type and in the same language.
• As soon as a feed has been prepared it can be validated at http://feedvalidator.org/

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<rss version="2.0">

	<channel>

		<title>The title of the channel</title>

		<link>The URL of the organization</link>

		<description>The description of the channel</description>

		<item>

			<title>The title of the news</title>

			<link>The URL of the news</link>

			<description>The description of the news</description>

			<pubDate>Mon, 6 Aug 2007 12:10:15 +0100</pubDate>

		</item>

	</channel>

</rss>

Example of a EUROFOREST Portal news feed

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<rss version="2.0">

<channel>

<title> EFI NEWS </title>

<link> http://www.efi.int/ </link>

<description> EFI is an international forest research organisation and network </description>

<item>

<title> EFI News 2-2007 focuses on Mediterranean forests </title>

<link> http://www.efi.int/news/efinews2_2007.html </link>

<description> The latest issue of EFI News focuses on Mediterranean forests.

Other topics include Russian export tariffs and the role of prescribed burning

in mitigating CO2 emissions. </description>

<pubDate> Mon, 5 Feb 2007 15:10:23 +0200 </pubDate>

</item>

</channel>

</rss>

The EUROFOREST Portal team will read the feeds periodically and store new information for the web news service.

Registration

To register as a news provider please fill the registration form (a pop-up window).