Hello,
From our experience with the APIs of the big players in the event
listing market (Upcoming, Zvents, Eventful, TicketMaster, etc.), it is
evident there is no standard format being used to exchange event
information behind the scenes.
Each API arbitrarily assigns its own naming scheme, date formats and
data structure. We’ve had to pick up the slack at Localist by
developing customized parsers to retrieve and standardize the
information for each service.
We’d like to start a discussion with interested people in the industry
about creating a standardized data interchange format.
We’ve already created a preliminary standard that can easily work with
all existing services, along with an explanation of how it complements
hCalendar:
http://dev.localist.com/~myke/eventformat.pdf
You can check out some example RAW XMLs too:
http://dev.localist.com/~myke/eml_vfest.txthttp://dev.localist.com/~myke/eml_simple.txt
We know this community is filled with ridiculously smart people — some
who may be interested in taking part in this discussion. If you, or
anyone you know would like to be involved, don't hesitate to send me
an e-mail.
Thanks
Mykel Nahorniak
Localist.com
P: 703-626-1528
E: myke(a)localist.com
Hello,
In order to surf on the new wave of contributions to this list, here a
suggestion:
WMF certainly has a lot of e-mail addresses of people who are not really
Wikimedians, but who are interested in what we do: professionals, hard core
readers, teachers, politicians, potential donators and so on. Why not create
a newsletter they can get per e-mail, maybe once a week. With news that is
relevant to them and written in a way they understand (no techno babble, no
Wiki jargon).
We do have this blog, you can have RSS yes, but many of these people don't
know what a blog or RSS is. Simply a mail service they can subscribe on, and
no bothering or searching later.
Kind regards
Ziko
2009/1/28 Cary Bass <cary(a)wikimedia.org>
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> I am glad you're here. Comproj is in a bit of a slow point right now
> while we reassess what we're here for, but you can help us in that
> reassessment!
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> Cary
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> Jerry~Yuyu wrote:
> > Halo all
> >
> > I wonder if most of know me already.
> >
> > This is User:Yuyu on Wikimedia projects, I start hanging around in
> > Chinese Wikipedia since 2004, and became a sysop there. And I've
> > been helping out in meta since Wikimania 2007, mostly on translation
> > and did give some comments in ComCom mailing list
> >
> > As a student of Journalism in Hong Kong who spent his childhood in
> > Mainland China, I think I can help with the Press and PR stuff here.
> > As a deputy-president of the local chapter in HK, I've already
> > handled dozens of media inquires and interviewed by several '].
> >
> > I hope I can help here as much as possible.
> >
> > Jeromy-Yu Maximilian Chan
> > Jerry~雨雨
> > User:Yuyu
> > http://jeromyu.info
> > MSN: jeromyuchan(a)msn.com <mailto:jeromyuchan@msn.com>
> >
> > <http://blogue.jeromyu.info/>
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