Can it be true? A one-stop spot for information about local cultural events? Piedmont Council of the Arts presents charlottesvillearts.org. Check out this month’s calendar — it’s packed!
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Frustratingly, they’ve chosen to disable one of WebCalendar’s best features: syndication of events through the iCalendar standard. I went to the site intending to syndicate it on the front page of cvillenews.com, so that people could see upcoming events. Without that feature, this is just yet another local events calendar, tossed in the scrap heap with the half dozen other ones maintained by local organizations, doomed to be ignored because it’s been limited in its availability to the tiny sliver of Charlottesvillians who will ever go to the PCA’s website.
Bummer.
They had it but disabled it? Weird. Why lock it up like that? Doesn’t make sense.
I looked for an RSS feed for their announcements, also, but didn’t see one. Would have been a nice thing to put in my sidebar (right under the cvillenews feed!).
The lack of a decent local events calendar has long bothered me. If just one of the half dozen of them would simply allow their calendar to be syndicated, that one would surely emerge as the standard. (Instead they maintain the electronic equivalent of gated communities and wonder why nobody ever pops by to visit them.) Imagine if every local events calendar had a feed. Somebody could create an aggregator that would include the events from all local calendars, letting people enter tags to create a custom calendar for themselves that they could subscribe to with their own calendar software.
*sigh*
‘Twould be nice to be able to aggregate the calendars, indeed. (Of course, my iCal has too many subscriptions already….) It is curious that folks who understand community enough to publish data promoting community events fall back to proprietary actions in the promotion. You writer folks, please tell me whether that qualifies as “irony?”
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Just wanted to follow-up with some of the comments here. My company is responsible for the new PCA site.
Calendar Subscriptions: check out right below the calendar box for “Helpful Calendar Tips”. There’s a “Subscribe” link that lets you subscribe to each calendar in ICAL, HTML, or XML format. Unfortunately, Google doesn’t allow a group calendar feed (ie. “subscribe to all PCA calendars in iCal format”). So, if you want to subscribe to all, you can subscribe to each one and with iCal, choose “add events to existing calendar” (basically pulling all events into a single iCal calendar). There are other programs that will aggregate multiple calendar feeds into one calendar.
Arts Blog Subscriptions: this is available both on the homepage (see the RSS icon next to the latest posts) and in the blog section (see the sidebar link). here’s the link: http://charlottesvillearts.org/rss/?section=blog
Thanks for the post and feel free to post any other comments or criticisms.
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