Re: [uf-discuss] CFP microformat?

2006-06-01 Thread Ryan King
On May 30, 2006, at 5:49 AM, Angus McIntyre wrote: At 21:45 +0200 20.05.2006, Ryan King wrote: On May 20, 2006, at 9:13 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: A good first step might be to see if you can get these conferences just using hCalendar to start with ... I want to reemphasize this The use

Re: [uf-discuss] CFP microformat?

2006-05-30 Thread Angus McIntyre
At 21:45 +0200 20.05.2006, Ryan King wrote: On May 20, 2006, at 9:13 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: A good first step might be to see if you can get these conferences just using hCalendar to start with ... I want to reemphasize this The use case you described sounds like a specialized case of

Re: [uf-discuss] CFP microformat?

2006-05-21 Thread Peter Krantz
On 5/20/06, Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The use case you described sounds like a specialized case of events + todos which sounds like exactly hCalendar. If hCalendar isn't sufficient, the only way to know reliably is try it out first. There seems to be a need to distinguish between

Re: [uf-discuss] CFP microformat?

2006-05-21 Thread Tantek Çelik
On 5/21/06 1:46 AM, Peter Krantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/20/06, Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The use case you described sounds like a specialized case of events + todos which sounds like exactly hCalendar. If hCalendar isn't sufficient, the only way to know reliably is try it

Place names for cities and categories for events (was Re: [uf-discuss] CFP microformat?)

2006-05-21 Thread Michael MD
The problems I see related to specifying event locations (what city an event is in) and categories (such as music genres, etc) in calendar data for public syndication/aggregation/sharing is in the lack of ways to specify things like cities/countries and categories in existing calendar software.

Re: [uf-discuss] CFP microformat?

2006-05-21 Thread Michael McCracken
OK, I put up a quick rewrite of one CFP with one vevent for the conference itself and vtodo elements for the deadlines. I used an hCard for the contact, and the description and categories vcalendar elements worked pretty well for the conference details. Take a look here:

Re: [uf-discuss] CFP microformat?

2006-05-20 Thread Ryan King
On May 20, 2006, at 2:24 AM, Michael McCracken wrote: Hi all, I'd like to start some discussion into a call-for-papers microformat. Here's the problem to solve: Publications at conferences are important for many academics' careers. Keeping track of submission and event dates and locations -

Re: [uf-discuss] CFP microformat?

2006-05-20 Thread Tantek Çelik
Yes, go ahead and document the examples, even if it is not as likely to turn into a microformat. Document the thoughts around how applicable it might be (general vs. niche). You will have at least help bring together the research that someone might use in the future. In addition, I have a

Re: [uf-discuss] CFP microformat?

2006-05-20 Thread Michael McCracken
I saw the example from the University of Mannheim's Laboratory for Dependable Distributed systems, and that does indeed seem like a good solution for the tracking dates and locataions of upcoming conferences. I don't think it'd solve the problem of searching based on paper topics. Maybe adding

Re: [uf-discuss] CFP microformat?

2006-05-20 Thread Michael McCracken
On 5/20/06, Ryan King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 20, 2006, at 9:13 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote: Michael, A good first step might be to see if you can get these conferences just using hCalendar to start with, to both markup the datetimes of upcoming conferences, and for each conference,

[uf-discuss] CFP microformat?

2006-05-19 Thread Michael McCracken
Hi all, I'd like to start some discussion into a call-for-papers microformat. Here's the problem to solve: Publications at conferences are important for many academics' careers. Keeping track of submission and event dates and locations - and time zones - is important. Doing that with less

Re: [uf-discuss] CFP microformat?

2006-05-19 Thread Tantek Çelik
Hi Mike, While this is starting to feel less like a general (80%) and more like a vertical (20%) application/use case, having had to deal with CFPs myself, I'm certainly sympathetic. I'd say to start with, compile a list of URLs to examples of CFPs on the web so we can start to document the

[uf-discuss] CFP Microformat

2006-01-26 Thread Paul Denning
I recently posted a message to xml-dev [1] asking if anyone knew of a format (XML schema) for a Call For Participation (CFP), which typically is associated with a conference or symposium. I then thought that perhaps a microformat would be nice also. Obviously the conference could have a page

Re: [uf-discuss] CFP Microformat

2006-01-26 Thread B.K. DeLong
At 10:08 AM 1/26/2006, Paul Denning wrote: I recently posted a message to xml-dev [1] asking if anyone knew of a format (XML schema) for a Call For Participation (CFP), which typically is associated with a conference or symposium. I then thought that perhaps a microformat would be nice also.