hbaragar / conf-data

Conference program metadata.

conf-data

This repository contains academic conference metadata.

Structure

• EventIndex.json contains an overview of all stored metadata. For every metadata change be sure to update the Version attribute for the conference being updated along with the DataRevision attribute in the conference data file itself.
• data/ contains the conference metadata itself.
• icons62/ contains 62x62 px imagery.
• icons200/ contains 200x200 px imagery.
• update.sh performs a git pull and automatically generates IndexVersion.json

Data Notes

Dirk Beyer has written a comprehensive description of the Confero data format:

https://www.conference-publishing.com/ConfEventData-JSON.php

In-progress data files can be validated via our test infrastructure (replace TEST-URL with a real url; Dropbox works nicely here):

http://conferoapp.com:8083/?file=TEST-URL

It is important that the test file be served with content type application/json or it will fail to load (this is usually a simple change to the web server configuration if it is not supported by default).

Other

Apps should try to pull the metadata as infrequently as possible. IndexVersion.json is only 37 bytes and by comparing its time field you will always know if your cached copy is up to date. The date can be generated with date +%s.

data/SampleData.json contains a sample data file that can be used as a template for creating new event data files.

IndexVersion.json contains the datestamp (in POSIX seconds) of the last metadata update. This is automatically generated by ./update.sh

Data format notes

• Dates are always Month/Day/Year (e.g., 09/25/2012)

• Times should be in 24h format, without am/pm (e.g., 17:55)