Data Sources

Timetables aims to make it easy for University departments/faculties/etc to get their data in. The main way this is currently approached is by accepting data in different ways. Timetable data can be:

• Directly entered through the admin web interface
• Provided as a spreadsheet in a standardised format
• Pulled (by us) from an existing resource, such as a department timetable web page

The idea being that users should be happy with at least one of these methods. Anne is in touch with departments regarding the provision of data, and will know about the needs of the different departments.

Existing Resources

The python/generator directory contains code to generate timetable data from external sources. For example the Physiology Development and Neuroscience department has its own timetable site and we have some code to screen scrape it.