On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 11:46:07PM -0800, S Page wrote: +> 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?
Yes, exactly, but also including the submission deadlines as shown on the Main_Page. +> +> 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. Yes, I think using a query to generate the iCal / CSV format would be the best option (though I have no idea on the internals of SMW)... +> +> 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? I think that the calendar export might be of general interest for so I think an external solution using screen-scraping is not really optimal. Best regards, /Jörg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
