Joerg Diederich wrote: > I just started to play around with google calendar and I really think > it's useful. Now it would be great to have the usual conference dates > + deadlines in it, too. Some people already have public calendars of > events and deadline, but they are incomplete, badly maintained etc. > > Now before I start yet another (incomplete + badly maintained) > conference calendar, I thought it might be (easily) possible to > generate the data from the ontoworld knowledge base. What do you > think?
You want to convert the data shown in http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Upcoming_events into iCal or CSV format and then import into Google Calendar? You could write PHP code for a special page that outputs the information in the right format. It might be possible to write an inline query that outputs the appropriate format. However, looking at http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2445#section-4.3.4 , it calls for dates in ISO 8601 basic format, e.g. DTSTART:19980118T230000. SMW's Type:Date accepts this, but it stores and outputs ISO 8601 extended format with dashes, thus 1998-01-18T23:00:00. There isn't (currently) a way to ask SMW for other formats, or to request parts of a date. By the way, parts of a date would be very useful to do derived date things like "born on this day" that User:Patrick has been trying. Maybe write an external script that contacts the new Special:Ask page, queries for events and their Start date and End date, then parses the result and does some munging? -- =S ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
