• • CU_Calendar_2014.ics: Cornell Academic Calendar in iCalendar format. You may also be able to copy the link to your clipboard and subscribe to it within your calendar program.

• CU_Calendar_2014.ics: Cornell 2013-2014 Academic Calendar in iCalendar format

• http://www.cornell.edu/academics/calendar/

Download for a private copy which you can customize further to your liking

• You may need to Control-Click (or Right Click) to Save As... the link. On some systems the files will be recognized as TEXT (which it also is) and a recommendation may be made to save it with extension txt override that recommendation and save it with the ics extension. Once downloaded, you will have an .ics file which can then be imported into iCal for use.
• If recognized by your browser as an iCalendar file, you may be prompted to open the file directly in iCal when downloading.
• If not directly prompted to load into iCal, double click the downloaded file. You will probably want to open it as a new calendar, separate from any others you may have.
• You now have a local copy of the Cornell Academic Calendar as one of your calendars in iCal.

Subscribe to the calendar as read-only:

• Copy the link to your clipboard:
  http://www.math.cornell.edu/twiki/pub/ITO/CornellAcademicCalendarInICalFormat/CU_Calendar_2014.ics
• Open iCal and choose Subscribe...
• Paste the URL into the area provided
• Customize the way the calendar is presented in iCal as desired.

Colophon:

• Due to changes in the iCal publishing model, a subscription link for 2012-2013 is not available. You can download the ics file, however. See below for details.
  • CU_Calendar_2013.ics: Cornell 2012-2013 Academic Calendar in iCalendar Format

• CU_Calendar_2013.ics: Cornell 2012-2013 Academic Calendar in iCalendar Format

• Due to changes in the iCal publishing model, a subscription link for 2012-2013 is not available.

• webcal://ical.mac.com/cu_math_ito/AcadCal11.ics 2010-2011 Academic Year

• webcal://www.me.com/ca/sharesubscribe/1.1049892178/6972E245-84D7-4B5F-A1C9-B4C416843CE7.ics 2011-2012 Academic Year
• webcal://ical.mac.com/cu_math_ito/AcadCal11.ics 2010-2011 Academic Year

• CU_Calendar_2012.ics: Cornell 2011-2012 Academic Calendar in iCalendar Format

• webcal://ical.mac.com/cu_math_ito/AcadCal11.ics 2010-2011 Academic Year
• webcal://www.me.com/ca/sharesubscribe/1.1049892178/6972E245-84D7-4B5F-A1C9-B4C416843CE7.ics 2011-2012 Academic Year

• webcal://ical.mac.com/cu_math_ito/AcadCal11.ics

• webcal://ical.mac.com/cu_math_ito/AcadCal11.ics

And a web version of the calendar:

• http://ical.mac.com/cu_math_ito/AcadCal11

Not sure whether Cornell Information Technologies has any plans to publish the calendar in this format. Meanwhile, enjoy!

The file presented here is an .ics file which can be directly used by iCal, and probably other software using the open iCalendar format.

• AcadCal11.ics: Cornell Academic Calendar in iCalendar format.

You may need to right-click the link to save the file to your hard drive. Once downloaded, you will have an .ics file which can then be imported into iCal for use.

• Pasted the text into a text editor ( I used BBedit ).

• Searched for the SPACE character in each row of the Day Date column and replaced each with a TAB character.

• For events spanning several days, inserted a TAB character and edited to form a full date for the ending date.
• Copied the individual columns and pasted them into a spreadsheet. ( I used OpenOffice ).

• Downloaded a tool to take a text file and import it into iCal: iCalTextImport3.0 .

• Added a column in the spreadsheet for Allday Event and set value to TRUE for all rows.
• Deleted extraneous rows with no importable date information.

• Named calendar AcadCal11.
• Exported AcadCal11 from iCal to file AcadCal11.ics .

or you may be prompted to open the file directly in iCal when downloading.

The file presented here is an .ics file which can be directly used by iCal,

• AcadCal11.ics: Cornell Academic Calendar in iCalendar format

Colophon:

• Took the pdf file from the Cornell Academic Calendar page as a start.
• Held down the Option key and selected various rectangles from the pdf to collect the first and second columns of information from the pdf file.
• Pasted the text into BBedit.
• Cleaned it up by hand so rows of the original columns were restored.
• Searched for the SPACE character in each row of the Day Date column and replaced them with TAB character.
• Manually added the year to dates in 2011 so dates would be interpreted properly when pulling into spreadsheet.
• For events spanning several days, inserted a TAB character and a full date for the ending date.
• Copied the individual columns and pasted them into an OpenOffice spreadsheet.
• Proofread the resulting columns (some cleanup still necessary inserting and deleting cells to get things aligned properly).
• Downloaded iCalTextImport3.0 .
• Read its import advice.
• Put headers on the columns in the spreadsheet.
• Added column in spreadsheet for Allday Event and set value to TRUE for all rows.
• Deleted extraneous rows with no date data.
• Copied the contents of the spreadsheet to the clipboard.
• Pasted into text editor (BBedit again).
• Saved as text file.
• Imported into iCal using iCalTextImport3.0 .
• Named calendar AcadCal11 .
• Exported AcadCal11 from iCal to file AcadCal11.ics .
• Uploaded AcadCal11.ics to here.
• Enjoy!

Cornell Academic Calendar in iCal Format

Quick Overview:

• http://cufs.cit.cornell.edu/corptime/calimports/AcadCal10.ics
• The above link is not a simple download link. For some reason you must log in with yoour NetID to complete the download.

Ultimately you will have an .ics file which can then be imported into iCal for use.

More details:

You can access the Cornell Academic Calendar page at:

• http://www.cornell.edu/academics/calendar/index.cfm

On that page you will find a section in the sidebar for Oracle calendar users:

• http://www.cit.cornell.edu/calendar/CTAcademic_readme.html

From there you can download the file listed above from:

• http://cufs.cit.cornell.edu/corptime/calimports/AcadCal10.ics
• The above link is not a simple download link. For some reason you must log in with yoour NetID to complete the download.

Save the file to your local hard drive and import it into iCal or other software.

On the Mac using iCal

Otherwise, double click the downloaded file. You will probably want to open it as a new calendar, separate from any others you may have.

You now have a local copy of the Cornell Academic Calendar as one of your calendars in iCal.

I have published my local copy so I can simply subscribe to it from my iPhone and other Macs I use.

I would include the subscribe link here for your convenience were it not for the requirement of an authorization for download.

I am looking into whether Cornell has any plans to publish the calendar so one can simply subscribe to it.

-- DickFurnas - 2009-08-18