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<conf-date> Conference Date

Date(s) on which a conference was held.

Usage/Remarks

Best Practice

Conference dates in metadata are traditionally stored in one of two forms: as a single date (“May 1906”), or as the first day and last day of the conference. Either form can be stored in the <conf-date> element: 
<conf-date iso-8601-date="2011-12">December 2011</conf-date>
or
<conf-date iso-8601-date="2010-08-04">August 4, 2010 - August 9, 2010</conf-date>
Dates that originate as separate first and last elements in the source should be combined. For example, the separate dates: 
  <conf-start>August 4, 2010</conf-start>
  <conf-end>August 9, 2010</conf-end>
should be merged into a single conference date to become:
<conf-date iso-8601-date="2010-08-04">August 4, 2010 - August 9, 2010</conf-date>
Related Elements
The container element <conference> holds all of the elements that may be used to describe a conference, when a book or book component was originally presented at a conference. Those elements include: <conf-date>, <conf-name>, <conf-acronym>, <conf-num>, <conf-loc>, <conf-sponsor>, <conf-theme>, and <string-conf>.
Attributes
calendar
content-type
iso-8601-date
specific-use

Base Attributes

id
xml:base
xml:lang
Models and Context
May be contained in
<conference>, <element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>, <string-conf>
Description
Any combination of:
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  conf-date    (#PCDATA %conf-date-elements;)*              >
Expanded Content Model

(#PCDATA | day | era | month | season | year | x)*

Tagged Samples
In citations
Mixed citation
...
<ref>
 <mixed-citation publication-type="paper">
  <string-name><surname>Thabet</surname>
  <given-names>A</given-names></string-name>.
  <article-title>Clinical value of two serial pulmonary
  embolism-protocol CT studies performed within ten
  days</article-title>. <conf-name>Annual Scientific
  Meeting and Postgraduate Course of the American
  Society of Emergency Radiology</conf-name>;
  <conf-date iso-8601-date="2006-09-27">2006 Sep
  27-30</conf-date>; <conf-loc>Washington, DC</conf-loc>.
 </mixed-citation>
</ref>
...
Element citation
...
<ref>
 <element-citation publication-type="paper">
  <name><surname>Thabet</surname>
   <given-names>A</given-names></name>
  <article-title>Clinical value of two serial pulmonary
   embolism-protocol CT studies performed within ten
   days</article-title>
  <conf-name>Annual Scientific Meeting and Postgraduate
   Course of the American Society of Emergency Radiology</conf-name>
  <conf-date iso-8601-date="2006-09-27">2006 Sep 27-30</conf-date>
  <conf-loc>Washington, DC</conf-loc>
 </element-citation>
</ref>
...
In the book metadata 
...
<book-meta>
 ...
 <pub-date iso-8601-date="2006">
  <year>2006</year></pub-date>
 <conference>
  <conf-date iso-8601-date="2006-08-14">14 August 2006</conf-date>
  <string-conf>&ldquo;HIV/AIDS in Prison: A Comprehensive
   Response,&rdquo; Satellite meeting at the <conf-name>XVI
   International AIDS Conference</conf-name></string-conf>
  <conf-name>HIV/AIDS in Prison: A Comprehensive Response</conf-name>
  <conf-num>XVI</conf-num>
  <conf-acronym>AIDS 2006</conf-acronym>
  <conf-loc>Toronto, Canada</conf-loc>
  <conf-theme content-type="conference">Time to Deliver</conf-theme>
  <conf-sponsor content-type="satellite">Public Health Agency
   of Canada</conf-sponsor>
  <conf-sponsor content-type="satellite">United Nations Office
   on Drugs and Crime</conf-sponsor>
  <conf-sponsor content-type="conference">Government of Canada</conf-sponsor>
  <conf-sponsor content-type="conference">Swedish International
   Development Agency (Sida)</conf-sponsor>
  ...
 </conference>
 ...
</book-meta>
...
Related Resources
The element <conf-date> may be used in bibliographic references (<element-citation> and <mixed-citation>). For a discussion on the use of <conf-date>, see Conferences in Citations.