Two RSS feeds with appropriate metadata will halp us provide:
a) updates on all new courses available from OCW sites, and
b) advanced search

RSS feeds should be in RSS 1.0 format and at should include these fields:
school name in title
creative commons license terms
title of each course with indication of school?? (dc:title)
description of each course (dc:description)
link for course (dc:link)
author(s) (dc:creator or dc:contributor)
department(s) or topic area for each course (dc:subject) – See NOTE below
language for each course (dc:language)
keywords for each course - optional (dc:subject)

NOTE: need to agree on a tag that will differentiate the dc:subject containing keywords from the dc:subject containing department or topic area.

Sample RSS 1.0 feeds from MIT OCW are located here:
MIT All Courses RSS 1.0
MIT New Courses RSS 1.0

We will setup a location on the wiki for Member sites to put URL for their course RSS feeds.