Awesome, thanks Nick, great list!
Um....do you (could you) provide the info on that page in a structured
form....?
Mike
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Nick Poole wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The Collections Trust 'Upcoming events' page aggregates sector professional events listings for the next 6-8 months, including regional MDO events, major conferences and other sector workshops. We've currently got around 140 events listed into next year.
>
> See http://www.collectionstrust.org.uk/events/upcoming-events for details.
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> There's no way of automating the aggregation of this information at the moment. Everyone uses different formats, data structures etc and there's very little machine-readable stuff on museum events that we've been able to find.
>
> As ever, our greatest challenge is letting people know about all of the great content we've got on our site, so please, please do share the above link with your colleagues and networks and help us ensure that the resource is used so that we can justify continuing it!
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> All best,
>
> Nick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Light
> Sent: 19 November 2014 10:07
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> Subject: Re: [MCG] Conference/workshop lists
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> Culture24?
>
> Is there a mechanism whereby one calendar can be auto-trickle-fed by a number of other calendars? If so, the problem could be addressed locally (as it is being), and the aggregation could be automatic.
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> Richard
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> On 19/11/2014 09:40, Mike Ellis wrote:
>> Hi Nicole
>>
>> I reckon local consortia of museums are probably pretty good at this -
>> we're doing some work with SWFed at the moment for instance, and their
>> calendar is pretty well stocked: http://www.swfed.org.uk/whats-on
>>
>> Same with some of the others we've worked with / looked at.
>>
>> It'd be nice if there was a uk-wide aggregator doing all of this.
>> Actually, really, it'd be nice if the MCG did this for the sector -
>> but obviously it's time consuming / costly / difficult to keep up to
>> date and they're all busy people..
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Mike
>>
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>>
>>
>> Gertrude Nicole Friedman wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I was hoping to get some recommendations of online sources/calendars
>>> that list conferences and workshops taking place in the GLAM/tech
>>> fields.
>>> Google, twitter, and word of mouth have been my best friends so far,
>>> but I seem to be finding out about everything just a little too late.
>>>
>>> Any recommendations on sites or sources that you all use for this
>>> purpose would be greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Nicole
>>>
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