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Official publication date #319

Closed mjpost closed 4 years ago

mjpost commented 5 years ago

There has been discussion on the ACL Exec about the official publication date for conference proceedings. The date that proceedings were actually made available has important patent implications, and many people have assumed that it would be the first day of the conference.

For ACL, NAACL, and EMNLP this year, we will be following this convention. In the future, it is likely (not yet confirmed) that the proceedings will be posted up to two weeks prior to the official start date of the conference.

In preparation for this, we should add an optional (for backward compatibility) tag or attribute to proceedings that indicates the date they were actually published. This would then be displayed on the proceedings page.

mjpost commented 5 years ago

I want to start adding official publication date to the ingest XML, even if we don't display it. Does anyone have a preferred or suggested tag or format for this?

I am thinking an attribute on the new proceedings tag (#317), eg.,

<collection>
   <proceedings pubdate="YYYY-MM-DD">
      <paper>
         ...
mjpost commented 4 years ago

This was added in #505.