Summaries

The “summary” contains a short piece of text that covers the article’s most important facts. This has been separated out from the main description to ensure that we have the right type of content for display when there is limited space, for example, when a series of events/attractions are displayed in a list format. Two important things should be noted. Summaries only exist for the Whatsonwhen product set, so if you are using a combination of Whatsonwhen and Frommer’s content you should ensure you have accounted for the difference. Secondly, for Whatsonwhen content, the “description” field will only make sense when it follows on from the “summary” field. Essentially these are the same piece of content split into to two. Therefore when you are displaying a full event article you will need to display these fields one after the other.

Categories

Choosing to display the categories (Audience Interest) for an event requires a deep understanding of the category structure. Categories are hierarchical and in most cases it will make sense to display the top level, such as “Arts” rather than “Abstract Expressionist”. This generally means you need to know what these top levels are up front. Also, articles can be associated with multiple categories, so you will need to account for displaying them all. There is no primary category assigned to an article.

Contact Information

Events content can often have two sets of contact information, that relating to the venue where the event is happening and that relating to the organiser of the event. These two sets can be completely different. The location contact information, particularly the address, is probably the most important and tends to be displayed first, but you will need to assign space for this possible additional information.