Entering Events

[fschwinger]

When I tried out OpenResearch starting of January, after Wolfgang pointed it out in the i5 Doctoral Seminar at RWTH Aachen University, I added two conference events into the system.

See: https://www.openresearch.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Felix

I like the idea of a crowdsourced conference tracking tool. One drawback here at the moment is that the conferences in my specific domains, Intelligent Transportation Systems, were not in the system at that time. Usually, I find the conferences in my domain using key papers of other authors. Wolfgang pointed to the proceedings title parser, however, I did not use it again so far.

Are there any plans on automating the addition of conference events into the system?

[WolfgangFahl]

My proposal would be to import all dblp conference series see https://confident.dbis.rwth-aachen.de/dblpconf/ Do you find your conference series there?

[fschwinger]

Yes, I found my conference there, see:

• https://confident.dbis.rwth-aachen.de/dblpconf/series/webist
• https://confident.dbis.rwth-aachen.de/dblpconf/series/itsc

Having more data as a starting point in OpenResearch seems like a good idea to me.

[WolfgangFahl]

I love it ...

[fschwinger]

For clarification: During the doctoral seminar at i5, after Wolfgang's talk, I searched for conferences in my area on OpenResearch, where I was planning on submitting papers. Unfortunately, none of the conferences I searched for where listed on there, which is why I think that the project would be more useful, if there is already a conference corpus in the system, which then can of course be extended by the research community.

Furthermore, the search starting point from a paper would also help me on identifying relevant conference events. Often I try to find relevant venues by looking at past papers with a large impact and looking where the authors have published their papers. Therefore, having links from individual papers to a respective conference event and from there to the conference series would be a great addition!

[WolfgangFahl]

see #112 for a prototype how to go from a paper to the event.

[clange]

I confirm from my own experience that publications form an important entry point into the domain of events. In other words, that the "shortest" way for a researcher to add a new event to OpenResearch is indeed likely to start from the researcher's publication list. It took me time to realize this, because I had always believed in events as first-class citizens.
Nevertheless: pretty much every researcher has a well maintained publication list as a part of their academic CV, and there are tools (e.g., Google Scholar), for maintaining it. I am not aware of a widely used tool for maintaining "the list of events I have attended". (Well, OpenResearch could become that.)