Hi Rachel
It is clear that there are lots and lots of lists. I don't think this will change any time soon.
Would it not be more useful to work with existing events listings, to coordinate and share information across listings, rather than add another one?
Best wishes
Rick
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Subject: Re: [PSCI-COM] Dates in 2011 for conferences / festivals / events
Dear list members
Thank you to all those that have contributed to this discussion and highlighted 'events sections' on their own websites. I have spent time looking at all the links provided (many of which I was already aware of) and whilst each one has it's individual strengths I still believe there is no fully comprehensive list. Each of those mentioned seems most relevant to a particular field of interest or attracts people to submit certain types of events.
I was thinking of having some sort of events page that would post the dates of events (as soon as the date is set by the organisers) and is as diverse as the Science Online Conference, The Royal Society Summer Festival and Society of Experimental Biology Prague conference to give just 3 unrelated event examples. It could then be sub-divided by region and also could advertise international conferences such as the WCSJ2011.
The suggestion by Lalita about a google calendar or the suggestion by Marilyn abut a "web scraping" programme sounds interesting. I would volunteer to co-ordinate such a list but I would need some help from a list member who was good on the technology side. It would be fantastic to have an interactive site so I hope someone might be able to help me take on this challenge.
Many thanks
Rachel
On 16 November 2010 11:06, Kaplish, Lalita <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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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