Is it possible to have "sessions" with multiple paper presentations?

[Karl R. Wurst]

I am working on setting up KonOpas for an academic conference.

Something that is very common in this type of conference is a paper session. Each paper session has multiple papers being presented during the session. As an example:

Session 1A: Session Title, 14:30-15:45, Session Chair: Person1
Paper 1: Paper1 Title, 14:30-14:55, Author1, Author2
Paper 2: Paper2 Title, 14:55-15:15, Author 3, Author 4
Paper 3: Paper3 Title, 15:15-15:45, Author 5

At the moment I am representing this as 4 separate program items. They are grouped (somewhat) by being all tagged with Session 1A, but visually, it looks like 2 program items at 14:30, 1 item at 14:55, and 1 item at 15:15.

I could get rid of the first item (Session 1A) if it weren't necessary the display the Session Chair. (I may just do this, and not include the session chair in the mobile version, just on the printed program, if necessary...)

Any ideas on how to represent this type of organization of items? Is there some way to do it currently, or will it require adding a new feature?

Thanks.

[Eemeli Aro]

You're right, as of yet there's no way to show any metadata about a
tag other than its name. I should fix this, but that means also
figuring out the right way of doing so.

What could work for you as a bit of a hack would be to add info about
the session to the end of each programme item description (which I
presume currently holds the paper abstract). That field can have HTML
content, and it's displayed with the style "white-space: pre-line" so
a double line break effectively starts a new paragraph. To add a link
to the chair's page you can use <a href="#part/CHAIR_ID_HERE">link
text</a>. Those items won't show up for the chair's programme listing,
though, so from the chair's bio you may want to add a link to the
session with <a href="#prog/tag:SESSION_ID_HERE">link text</a>.

In case you're using the master branch rather than release 0.5.0,
there's support now for naming tag categories so you can have URLs
like "#prog/session:SESSION_ID_HERE". To use, you need to set
konopas_set['tag_categories'] = ['session']; and prefix your session
tags with "session:". I really should push another version out, the
current master is probably less buggy than the latest release...

Out of interest, do your sessions have more data associated with them
than the session name, chair(s), and the included papers?

eemeli

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[Henry Balen]

Eemeli,

It may make sense in a future version to have a program item that can be composite of program items. This can then be used to provide academic sessions.

I see the tags as being helpful at finding and classifying information or building up folksonomies (we use tag contexts as well in the Conference Planner both for indicating participants interests by topic [context] and for classifying program items). While they can be used in the way you describe it seems like fitting a square peg into a round hole and you may have an explosion of contexts (some academic conferences have a lot of session - for example the AAG's annual meeting has thousands of these).

Henry

[Eemeli Aro]

On 15 March 2014 22:59, Henry Balen <ba...@acm.org> wrote:
> Eemeli,
>
> It may make sense in a future version to have a program item that can be composite of program items. This can then be used to provide academic sessions.
>
> I see the tags as being helpful at finding and classifying information or building up folksonomies (we use tag contexts as well in the Conference Planner both for indicating participants interests by topic [context] and for classifying program items). While they can be used in the way you describe it seems like fitting a square peg into a round hole and you may have an explosion of contexts (some academic conferences have a lot of session - for example the AAG's annual meeting has thousands of these).

I agree; I'd count getting support for scientific conferences "right"
as one of the requirements for a 1.0 release. What I proposed was a
hack that'd work with KonOpas as it is now; the proper implementation
will require some thought---and an update to the data schema as well
as the interface.

Right now, all data is keyed either to a programme item, or a
programme participant. Data on sessions doesn't really fit either of
those, which means it needs to be expressed differently. Tags are
pretty flexible, see for example the "track" and "type" categories
used with Arisia [1], but they currently can't carry info like
"session chair" or even a description, which are clearly needed.

Next, there's the interface question: how should an item-in-session be
shown? How about in comparison to an item not in a session, such as a
keynote presentation? I don't know yet. Suggestions?

eemeli

[1] http://guide.2014.arisia.org/

[Karl-Johan Norén]

15 mar 2014 kl. 20:01 skrev Karl R. Wurst <karl.r...@gmail.com>:

> I am working on setting up KonOpas for an academic conference.
>
> Something that is very common in this type of conference is a paper session. Each paper session has multiple papers being presented during the session. As an example:

[ snip ]

> Any ideas on how to represent this type of organization of items? Is there some way to do it currently, or will it require adding a new feature?

One possible but fugly way of handling this would be by taking advantage
of that the desc and bio fields can include HTML, and build something
like this:

title: "Session 1A: Session title"
time: "14:30"
mins: "75"
people.0.name: "Person1 (chair)"
people.1.name: "Author1"
people.N.name: "AuthorN"
desc: "Paper1 Title, 14:30-14:55, Author1<br>PaperN Title, 14:55-15.15, AuthorN"

Since searching goes through all data fields, you can still search for the
individual papers/presentations. The drawback is that you won't show the
individual paper titles unless you expand the session.

The above solution is what I used for the upcoming conference of the Swedish
association of professional translators, though for a less complex item:

<http://m.sfoe.eu/#star/set:53>

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