About Beta
About confref labs
The services of confref on its identifiers, in beta.
What is here
- Landing pages: one page per conference series and per event, at its identifier on
id.confref.org, with the records of the sources, the proceedings, the ratings and the data in RDF. - Search: series and events by name, acronym, place and year, with filters for academic field, discipline, time, series, country and attendance mode.
- Map: the events at their places, over time.
- SPARQL: all datasets in one endpoint.
- APIs: lookup of identifiers, search as JSON, reconciliation for OpenRefine, calendars.
- Dashboard: what the loaded data covers and where the sources disagree.
Beta
The services are new. They can change, move or be unavailable for a while, and their data is loaded from the
current versions of the datasets, which can still contain errors. The identifiers on id.confref.org do not
change: an identifier that turns out to stand for two events is split, two identifiers for one event are merged,
and the old identifiers keep resolving.
labs and www
- www.confref.org is the project site: the datasets with their dumps and descriptions, the identifiers, the history of the project, news.
- labs.confref.org holds the services on the data. Its pages have the dark header with the “labs” mark.
- id.confref.org is where the identifiers resolve; its landing pages belong to the labs.
Where the data comes from
The labs load the stable versions of the datasets of
confref-data: the identifier set ids, made from the records of
Springer LOD, the confref portal, ConfIDent, dblp, Wikidata and the GND, joined by linksets; the places of the
events and their academic fields, matched to Wikidata and the OECD classification of fields of science; the ratings
Springer published for its series. Each dataset is described on www.confref.org.
Source code
The platform: confref-platform. Problems and suggestions: its issues.