4. Under the Source Template drop-down on the left side: select ‘Basic RSS ‘RSS Source Template’ and click ‘Select’

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5. Under the New Source template on the right side:

• Enter a Title (i.e. NY Times Front Page) and Description (i.e. NY Times RSS)

• Select a Community for your source (i.e. General News)

• Select ‘Save Source’

6. When saved, the source template reloads with:

• Unique ‘Shared ‘Share ID’ for your source

• Title, Description, and Community ID entered in Step 5 are added to the corresponding fields in the JSON

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7.  Enter unique tags by replacing ‘tag 1’ in the quotations, then add any additional tags in quotations followed by a commadirectly into the field provided by the GUI.

• Note: No comma after the last tag, see below

• i.e. "tags": ["NY Times", “Front Page”, “RSS”],

TODO: determine how to get "New York Times" added as a tag

8.  Replace the template URL in the "url": field with the .rss or .xml URL for the desired RSS feed, followed by a comma after the quotation

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Test the Source

Configuring the Extractors

Two fields must be added to the end of the JSON for text and metadata extractors depending on the content and desired results:

• For extraction of entities and associations and if sentiment scoring is NOT desired, copy and paste the following :

           "useExtractor":"OpenCalais",

"useTextExtractor": "boilerpipe"

• For keyword extraction AND sentiment scoring, or for foreign language sources, copy and paste the following:

"useExtractor":"AlchemyAPI-metadata",

           "userTextExtractor":"AlchemyAPI"

10. Next to Test Parameters, change the ‘Number of Documents:’ from ‘10’ to ‘2’, and select ‘Test Source’

11. Depending on your settings, you may need to accept pop-ups in order to receive the success or error message

Publishing the Source

13a.  If a second test results in error, copy and paste error message and send to Ikanow POC

13b.  If successful, select ‘Publish Source’ to begin harvesting