confref takes its records from several sources and links them: records of the same series or event are joined under one identifier. An error can lie in this linking or in a record of a source.
Issues on confref
Feedback of any kind goes to the public issue tracker of confref-data on GitHub: new issue. It is most useful for errors of confref itself, in the linking and the grouping of records into series and events:
- records of different conferences joined under one identifier, or one conference under two identifiers;
- an event in the wrong series, or a workshop counted as an edition of its main conference.
Examples help to find the rule behind an error. On the pages of labs.confref.org, the Feedback button prepares an issue with the page and the selected text. Without a GitHub account, the prepared text can be copied and sent to the contact in the legal notice.
Corrections in the sources
An error in a record of a source is best also corrected in that source, so that it is right there as well. confref takes the correction with its next harvest of the source. Each record on a landing page names its source.
- ConfIDent: events and series can be added and updated through ANNOUNCE; editing needs an account; questions in the FAQ.
- Wikidata: anyone can edit the items of conferences and series on wikidata.org; each item has a discussion page.
- dblp: errors are reported to the dblp team, as described in the FAQ How can I correct errors in dblp?
- GND: errors in records of the Integrated Authority File are reported to the GND office of the German National Library (gnd-info@dnb.de).
- Springer LOD (2015, 2018), the confref portal (2020), the TU Wien programme committees (2015): these sources are no longer kept. Their errors are reported as issues on confref and corrected there.
New conferences
confref does not create series or events of its own; they come from its sources. A conference that is missing is added to ConfIDent, which also gives it a DOI, and reaches confref with the next harvest.
The ontology
Questions about the terms of the ontology and proposals for new ones: issues of confref-ontology.