Openresearch:HowTo

Personalized Conference Calendars

• Just add the template Template:ConfCalendar to a page and indicate the event series you are interested. See the example Sören_Auer#My_Conference_Calendar.

Identifying Events

Please use <<acronym>> <<year>> as identifier (page title) for events, e.g. "ISWC 2016".

Editing Conference series

Its particularly useful to get an overview of how a conference serie developed over time, e.g. wrt. acceptance rate geographic focus etc.

In most cases, there is a Web page of the steering committee of a conference series, which will contain information about past and future events. Also DBLP is a great source, e.g. http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/ercimdl/index.html The foreword/preface of the respective proceedings (which is freely accessible in most cases) also usually contains the most important facts about a conference (e.g. chairs, number of submitted and accepted papers etc.).

Bulk Page Creation

For conference series (and probably other similar types of content), its important to add data to OpenResearch in bulk. Here is how this can be done easily:

• Create a spreadsheet with the important information, similar to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19n943XNzDDuCaBpZ4x1l1P4gJVQ8my2424o4UOc3v9k/edit
• Export the spreadsheet to a CSV
• You can use a service such as http://mwcsvimport.pronique.com to create an XML import file for MediaWiki from the CSV using the following template:

The Title should be "{$Acronym}" and each of the variables should aligned with variables in the xml file.

{{Event
|Acronym={$Acronym}
|Title={$Title}
|Series=ESWC
|Type=Conference
|Field=Semantic web
|Start date={$Start}
|End date={$End}
|City={$City}
|State={$State}
|Country={$Country}
|Homepage={$Homepage}
|Submitted papers={$Submissions}
|Accepted papers={$Accepted}
|has general chair={$Chair},
|has program chair={$PC chair}
}}

• Use MediWiki Import pages to upload the generated XML import file and create the pages in bulk
• The import page accepts XML files formated in the Media Wiki export format (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Export, https://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.10.xsd)

OpenResearch TODO

A collaborative todo list is maintained in TODO for openresearch.