Cosmology Researcher Talks: Usage Tips | Talks data | Series data | Topics links |

1. Wildcard characters: an underscore ( _ ) matches any one character; a percent sign ( % ) matches zero or more characters.

2. All searches are case-insensitive.

3. An ongoing effort aims to standardize name spellings throughout the data. However, there may be isolated cases where different series have slightly different spellings for a speaker's name, especially with or without diacritics. When entering search terms in the input boxes, you can use the _ or % wildcard character to help return all relevant data. For example, to get all talks data that include both Haïmoud and Haimoud, use ha_moud. Another example: for Renée Hložek, use ren_e hlo_ek or ren%hlo_ek.

4. Another example where wildcards are helpful is when there may or may not be a hyphen in a word or phrase, e.g., large scale structure vs. large-scale structure. Searching for large_scale structure returns both.

5. Search terms are applied against a combined string containing the speaker, talk title, series name, and talk date (yyyy-mm-dd).

6. The Series page lists links to the Series web sites. In some case this may be a YouTube playlist or channel, but in most cases it's the site page for the conference, workshop, seminar series, etc.

7. Currently, a max of 200 talks are returned from a search. The suggestion is that if a search finds more than that, tighter search terms should be used. This is an arbitrary limit and can be adjusted if there is a good use case for it. The design of this site usually results in very good performance. If for some reason you want the entire .csv data file, it's available on the github repo.

8. This site is a simpler, quicker, though less full-featured alternative to the main database app on Google Cloud Run. This alternate version also has the advantage of more recent data updates than the Cloud Run app which typically has new data published periodically (~ every 2 weeks) by rebuilding and uploading both the app and its read-only sqlite database. However, any new updates show up immediately on this alternate site. If you're interested in seeing what the most recent updates are, they are listed on this page.

9. Are you a researcher? Have you given cosmology-related research talks or academic lectures publicly-available online that aren't in this database? Or know of ones by others that should be included? (criteria: intended for an audience of other cosmology researchers or students.) If so, I'd like to know about them and would appreciate a message to my twitter account. My aim is to help fill a gap, since AFAIK there are no other sources that have attempted to collect this data as comprehensively and from as wide a range of sites as is included here.

10. For a link that directly provides the query results (e.g., if you want to bookmark a particular query), use querystring parameters.
Syntax: crt.html?s1=xxx&s2&op=and&s2=yyy&not=zzz&ord=talkdate+desc
Examples:
?s1 - the 1st search term is always required
&s2 - optional; if provided but without &op, the logical operator defaults to AND
&op - optional, but for an OR query between s1 and s2, you must specify &op=or
&not - optional, if provided all rows that match this value are omitted
&ord - optional, if not provided the rows are sorted in descending talkdate order

The ?s1, &s2, and &not terms are used to search a multifield string containing the speaker name(s), talk title, video url, series name, and talkdate (yyyy-mm-dd).

Use html url encodings for the following characters:
+ - space (replace all spaces in querystring with a + character)
%5f - underscore char: _ (wildcard that matches any 1 char)
%25 - % (wildcard that matches zero or more chars)

The ord querystring parameter is the sort order (default is 'talkdate+desc'): allowed values are talk+asc, talk+desc, sname+asc, sname+desc, talkdate+asc, talkdate+desc (if asc or desc is not specified, the assumed default is asc)

https://jrdmb.netlify.app/crt.html?s1=CERN (queries are case-insensitive)
https://jrdmb.netlify.app/crt.html?s1=cold+dark+matter
https://jrdmb.netlify.app/crt.html?s1=cold+dark+matter&op=or&s2=cdm
https://jrdmb.netlify.app/crt.html?s1=gaussian&not=non%25gaussian
https://jrdmb.netlify.app/crt.html?s1=hubble&s2=tension&ord=sname+asc
https://jrdmb.netlify.app/crt.html?s1=mu%5foz