Good to see that the BSA's system is due for some changes. I went to look at
the site - it would seem to me to be one of the natural homes for an events
list - only to find no visible calendar.
It may be a great search tool, but you have to know what you want before you
can find it.
I wonder what format people would prefer for listings like this.
One model would be the Guardian's Saturday guide. With separate subject (or
media) listings done on a daily basis by towns.
So, if I live in, or plan to visit, Bristol and looking for something to do
next Wednesday, it is quickly visible.
Trouble is, any format that suits one person would upset someone else. But
that is the delight of this web thingy. It should be possible to allow
visitors to customise their own view.
Something like this looks good.
http://www.thebloomsbury.com/event/2010/12/16/month/all/all/1
There is even a reason for putting it here. Check out the event that runs
from 15th to 22nd December and catch some of the usual suspects.
MK
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Hi,
The British Science Association events system is used pretty widely for all
National Science & Engineering Week events, our branch events and has also
been used by the NHM for all Darwin200 and International Year of
Biodiversity events through access portals on their own sites. We also see
other organisations registering their events on here.
Anybody can register their event on there. We are currently making
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general, and improving the search function - these will be going live in the
next week or two.
http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/web/Events/WhatsOn/index.htm
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Dan
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Hello,
The Wellcome Library used to run the events list for the psci-com gateway
(http://www.intute.ac.uk/pscicom/ on the Intute site, but the service ended
in April 2009, mainly because it was very labour intensive for us. It
consisted of a rolling list of events and an online form where people could
submit details of their events, which we then uploaded to the website. We
did have regular submissions from quite a few contributors, but to be honest
there was not much comeback when we stopped running the service, and we kept
a covering webpage for a while with of various websites offering events
details but I don't think it got many hits.
Technology has moved on and an interactive site would probably be more
effective. I recall that someone posted something to the list last year
about setting up a google calendar for science and society events, but I
don't know if this ever got off the ground. We still have details of sites
providing public engagement/sci comm events listings if anyone wants to take
up the baton, but bear in mind that they're over a year old.
best wishes
Lalita
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