On Tue 27 Mar 2012, Kake kake@earth.li wrote:
I've just run a script to import some OxPoints data into the Oxford Guide (thanks go to Janet for providing the data in handy CSV form). This covers all the colleges in OxPoints, which I believe is all the colleges which form part of the university.
The question of what forms "part of the university" is an interesting one (and one that gets argued about quite a lot!)...
"""Thirty-eight Colleges, though independent and self-governing, form a core element of the University, to which they are related in a federal system, not unlike the United States.
Each college is granted a charter approved by the Privy Council, under which it is governed by a Head of House and a Governing Body comprising of a number of Fellows, most of whom also hold University posts.
There are also six Permanent Private Halls, which were founded by different Christian denominations, and still retain their religious character today.
Thirty colleges and all six halls admit students for both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Six other colleges are for graduates only. In addition, All Souls College has Fellows only and Kellogg College supports the lifelong learning work of the University for adult, part-time, and professional development students."""
(From http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/introducing_oxford/the_structure_of...)
Not that that answers the question really. Do you want to include PPHs, though? (I can get their info too if necessary.)
In some cases, the data import simply added a few bits of missing data, e.g. geodata, summary, Wikipedia link, etc.
I wonder if we could get the photos from Wikipedia as well? Or would that be silly?
I copied the existing practice of adding the following categories to each: Colleges, Education, The University. I also added locales in the cases where the name of the road the college is on was already defined as a locale in the guide. I didn't add locales such as "Central" because I'm not sure what counts as central.
No, the more I look at "Central" the more I'm not really sure how useful it is. :-} Is it worth trying to come up with a definition of it? Or would we be better ditching it altogether?
Jx