ChemSem: An Extensible and Scalable RSS-Based Seminar Alerting System for Scientific Collaboration

A seminar announcement system based on the extensive use of XML-based data structures, CML/MathML
for carrying more domain-specific molecular content, and open source software components is described.
The output is a resource description framework (RDF) site summary (RSS) feed, which potentially carries
many advantages over conventional announcement mechanisms, including the ability to aggregate and then
sort multiple and diverse RSS feeds on the basis of declared metadata and to feed into RDF-based mechanisms
for establishing links between different subject areas.