History of Eventseer - A Digital Library of Research Events

EventSeer timeline or html->php->python->python+django

1999

• First version up on http://elcomag.com/conferences/ (The first conference was added on August 16th - SMARTNET'99), see here for a copy. How it worked? A manually updated HTML file (revisioned under RCS)

2000-2001

• Replaced the manual HTML file with PHP version that read from a CSV file and presented events in a table with Call-For-Paper date (i.e. deadline), Notification date, Event date, Location of Event and Name of Event with link to more information about the event. This version had automatic highlighting of relevant dates (i.e. the ones that aren't in the past).
• Snapshot of version from Internet Archive on February 19th 2001 is found http://web.archive.org/web/20010218234355/www.elcomag.com/calendar/index.php.
• Renamed page from "conferences" to "events" (closer to , but not yet "eventseer" :)

2002

• Copied PHP version from elcomag.com/conferences to jfipa.org/events
• Got idea for new name of event service: eventseer
• Sept 8th - started re-implementation of EventSeer in Python

2003 Jan-Feb

• Copied and refined UI of jfipa.org/events to gamemining.net/events (primary focus on AI and game conferences), see http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~amundt/gamemining/events for how it looked.
• Feb 20th - Requested first eventseer ip name (eventseer.idi.ntnu.no)
• Feb 23th - Sent a draft eventseer paper email for comments from potential co-authors. This paper described various tasks needed for eventseer:
  1. classification (events vs not event) of incoming email (using either naive bayes or SVM
  2. parsing and extraction of emails (e.g. dates, locations, topics)
  3. database for extracted data
  4. XML schema and empirical analysis (of the data)
  5. and the rest (a lot of glue, e.g. wrapper induction for information extraction)

2003 Mar-2005 Aug

• Made Eventseer finally running under its proper name
• Got 2 kids, Defended my PhD thesis and joined Google :)
• When I left academia for industry and Thomas Brox Røst took over development, he opensourced a version of it here.

EventSeer is currently running as a service on EventSeer.net

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