library conferences on a map

It seems to me it would take such a thin layer of widely-used microformats to be able to plot library conferences on a timeline and on a map, but for now the reality is conferences tend to be listed on static, hand-created web pages, all with widely-differing formats, and every single conference has its own static, custom web site.

It's therefore fairly remarkable that Google is able to make anything at all out of this mess, in order to plot a few library conferences on a US map

From Google experimental search

library conferences view:map

http://www.google.com/views?q=library+conferences+view%3Amap

Comments

[Peter Murray]

That's only half of the story! There is also an experimental timeline view ("library conferences" in the timeline view).

This is amazing. Really amazing.