{"id":1556,"date":"2012-08-20T23:42:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T03:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2012-08-20T23:42:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T03:42:29","slug":"structured-schedule-and-course-calendar-data-for-brock-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2012\/08\/20\/structured-schedule-and-course-calendar-data-for-brock-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Structured Schedule and Course Calendar Data for Brock University"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As my last post about a Brock University Important Dates iCal Feed<\/a> indicated, I often find myself needing Brock University<\/a> information in a structured, digital format. As I’m not one to improve public information and make it private, here’s the how I made this information more fun to play with.<\/p>\n

As we in the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation<\/a> (formerly CTLET) at Brock University to update places like Contact North’s http:\/\/studyonline.ca and other reporting work, we often need this type of information, and to make it easier for a number of purpose to make use of the information as a web services.<\/p>\n

To that end I created http:\/\/cpi.brocku.ca\/services<\/p>\n

http:\/\/cpi.brocku.ca\/services is a collection of RESTful APIs<\/a> that return Brock University course calendar information in a number of formats: xml, html, csv and txt. The request URLs are created in a way that respects microformats.org’s guidelines for URLs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Along with a the course calendar information is a handy “function” I created called brock_year. brock_year returns the current course calendar year by default, or the year that corresponds with a queried UNIX time value. This is useful because the course calendar issuing year does not always match the Gregorian calendar year. For example, duration 3 of Brock University calendar year 2012 occurs in January of Gregorian year 2013! I’ve cut and pasted the PHP for that code a few times for me and others, now it’s a web services for all.<\/p>\n

Things will be updated as time permits and need arises. Also I should note that the Brock University Registrar’s information is considered definitive, and is the most accurate and well maintained source for this information http:\/\/www.brocku.ca\/registrar\/guides-and-timetable .<\/p>\n

Hope this helps someone, or inspires someone else to expose data in a number of structured formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As my last post about a Brock University Important Dates iCal Feed indicated, I often find myself needing Brock University information in a structured, digital format. As I’m not one to improve public information and make it private, here’s the how I made this information more fun to play with. As we in the Centre… Continue Reading Structured Schedule and Course Calendar Data for Brock University<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,18,3,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}