<conf-date>

Conference Date

Date(s) on which a conference was held.

Remarks

Related Essay: 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.
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 Calendar
content-type Type of Content
id Document Internal Identifier
iso-8601-date ISO-8601 Formatted Date
specific-use Specific Use
xml:base Base
xml:lang Language

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  conf-date    (#PCDATA %conf-date-elements;)*              >

Expanded Content Model

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

Description

Any combination of:

This element may be contained in:

<conference>, <element-citation>, <mixed-citation>, <product>, <related-article>, <related-object>, <string-conf>

Example 1

In an element-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing removed):
    ...
<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>
...

Example 2

In a mixed-style bibliographic reference (punctuation and spacing preserved):
    ...
<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&ndash;30</conf-date>; 
<conf-loc>Washington, DC</conf-loc>.</mixed-citation>
</ref>
...

Example 3

As part of 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>&rdquo;HIV/AIDS in Prison: A Comprehensive
Response,&ldquo; 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>
...

Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS) Version 2.0 Tag Library

Version of February 2016

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