Pass through feed engine
From Steeple
[edit] 1 Feed normaliser
Often institutional rss generation uses whatever system is available, and its tricky to get feeds that are standardised for podcast aggregation (Because no such standard exists)
The podcast steeple portal has a 'feed normaliser' which is bit that does the aggregation into my system (perl/libxml): It translates the incoming rss into a standard internal format, but also enhances the feed, e.g. with institution etc.
[edit] 2 Pass through
One thing I would be like to be able to do is to have this as a "pass-through" solution that operates at Oxford, standardising and enhancing your basic Oxitems feeds from an additional database on the fly. For instance, one could do something where three rss feeds (one audio, one video, one odf) are merged into a single media-rss feed (such that corresponding items in all feeds are collated into one item with several <media:content> elements), as well as enhanced with geodata (from a separate database). I thus get a more complete feed arriving in Cambridge, with which I can do a bit more.
It wouldn't need to be very high performance, but it would need to be reliable, and deal with features and issues that feed can have (such as utf character, html entities, CDATA sections).
