This repository contains academic conference metadata.
EventIndex.json
contains an overview of all stored metadata. For every metadata change be sure to update theVersion
attribute for the conference being updated along with theDataRevision
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 generatesIndexVersion.json
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).
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
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Dates are always Month/Day/Year (e.g., 09/25/2012)
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Times should be in 24h format, without am/pm (e.g., 17:55)