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PatternQuiz is underway

We’ve just started the first PatternQuiz. Starting from the top, in this installment we take on Site Patterns. There’s a detailed example of the “blog” pattern, but most importantly, get along and submit your own site patterns. In time, we’ll formalize these at the soon to be up and running WebPattern wiki.

Posted by john on Friday, December 16, 2005, at 7:21 am, and filed under PatternQuiz. Follow any responses to this post with its feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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  1. Sourendu | January 2, 2006 at 10:13 am | Permalink

    One kind of web site which I’ve been thinking about for some time is the academic conference web site. Typically this evolves over time: from the first announcement to registration and submission of talks, then on to arrival information and hotel bookings, and finally a proceedings, containing records of talks (pdf, doc, ppt etc) and photos.

    The time evolution is fairly strict, but can be thought of as “transient”. The “steady state” is the final proceedings. It may be useful to add field(s) to your pattern for pattern specification which ask for evolutionary history of a web site pattern. As web sites become more widely used content addressable retrieval systems for documentation, you might find more collaborations using them (our scientific collaborations already do this, and if there are tools I don’t see why stage productions will not one day be planned this way).

    Pattern type:

    Site
    Pattern name:
    Academic conference
    Also known as:
    conference
    Description:
    An academic conference is a web site which is dedicated to a single academic conference. It has a strict time development (usually over a period of less than a year): starting with announcements, following (in order) with registration and submission of papers, hotel bookings and arrival information, announcement of schedule of talks, links to given talks in various electronic formats and other electronic records (such as photographs, chat room, video). The final product is sometimes supplemented by a printed proceedings.
    Examples:
    Quark Matter 2005
    Lattice 2005
    Patterns which it plays a part of:
    to be specified later
    Patterns which make up a blog:
    to be specified later
    Comments:
    Contents of academic conferences are typically free access. At this time (2006) they have not entirely replaced printed proceedings, but supplement them in many ways. Academic libraries have not yet started cataloguing them as part of their collections.
    Tags:
    proceedings conferences

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