Tech Presentations » Site improvements

RFCs

Sergey Chernyshev — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:04:00 +0000

You probably noticed that TechPresentations.org got a huge amount of pages related to RFCs sometime last spring.

Finally, I polished the script that imports updates from RFC-editor.org index and now it’ll be updated once a month with recent RFCs.

How it affects the site? – First of all, for the first time web standards information got published in RDF format and can be used on Semantic Web. I already have most of the topics linked to DBPedia so it can probably be considered to be part of the LOD – now, this also includes RFC information..

Second, most RFCs have keywords associated with them and based on this, each topic, in addition to a list of conferences and presentations, now also has a list of standards associated with the topic (see: HTTP, JavaScript, World Wide Web, e-mail).

I hope that next time I can pay attention to the site, I’ll get W3C’s recommendations as well

I hope that having standard information next to presentations will be helpful for your research and will appreciate any feedback.

Presentation materials feed

Sergey Chernyshev — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:21:43 +0000

I’ve added one more useful feed, the one I’d be using most often (if I wasn’t the one who updates it mostly) – feed of conferences that posted a page with presentation materials (slides/videos/transcripts and etc).

If you’ll find a good presentations, you’re more then welcome to post it.

New feeds

Sergey Chernyshev — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:45:41 +0000

I’m working on adding more feeds to the site (thanks to Semantic MediaWiki automation).

First two are, the most helpful ones:

I hope to add them for each topic, but it’ll take some URL rewriting and performance optimization magic which takes longer.

Enjoy!

Call for papers

Sergey Chernyshev — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:03:49 +0000

I forgot to mention that I also added Call for papers functionality. If you post future conference, please include call for papers information.

This will help those of us who wants to talk at the conference / event – list of conferences with open CFP is available on Conferences page.

Forms, SlideShare & stats

Sergey Chernyshev — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:34:17 +0000

I’ve made some significant improvements to the wiki:

First of all, I added Semantic Forms extension and created data entry forms for:

and I’m going to add more forms (e.g. for entering people, companies, topics and etc.).

Note that if you use “Add conference” form on Conference Series page, new page gets pre-populated with last conference available to allow quick editing (it might be confusing though unless you enter many conferences as I do). Also, notice that some fields, e.g. conference names and so on, have pre-population based on available pages.

A lot of thanks to Yaron Koren, developer of Semantic Forms, for listening to my wishes and implementing many of them.

Also I wrote SlideShare.net widget and added this as a form field so please if you find a slides for the talk on SlideShare, add them as well. You can see how it works on OpenID Bottcamp tutorial by David Recordon and Simon Willison.

I added inline Google Video widget and flv player some time ago, but never had time to announce it.

I hope all these improvements will help you help me in populating the site ;)

Some stats: 81 presentations, 142 conferences (including historical ones, e.g. DEFCON 1 from 1993), 36 people pages, 15 companies.