Concerts, balls, festivals, matches, talks, markets and all kinds of other events happen around us every day. Information about them, though, tends to be scattered across the sites of organisers, towns and arts centres, across social networks, or on posters.
Once you send it, we build a clear event record out of your sentence. You will see what the system took straight from your text and what it derived from it — a specific date out of the word “tomorrow”, for instance. Before you confirm, you can check every detail and correct it if needed.
The Voice of Events collects it in one place. If you know of an event that is missing here, you do not have to find the right form or fill in a row of fields. Just write it the way you would tell someone you know. The system works out from the sentence what is happening, where and when. If it does not know some important detail, it will not invent one.
That is not where the work with the information ends. A single event record can be useful to a visitor looking for somewhere to go, to an organiser who needs to reach people, to a driver who wants to know where demand will come up later, and to a business nearby preparing for a busier night based on the expected turnout.
Information about an event only has to be gathered once. It means something different to each person, though. A visitor cares about the programme and the venue, an organiser about the details being right, a driver mainly about the finish time, and a business nearby about how many people might turn up. So one record can yield several different views, depending on who needs the information at the time.
The event only has to be entered once. That single record can then act as a shared source of information for other places and services. When the date, venue or any other detail changes, there is no need to retype the same information in several places.
date · venue · turnoutFinds out in one place what is happening over the coming days, when it starts and where it is held. No need to go through the town website, the organiser and several social networks for every single event.
what · when · whereFor a driver the programme is not the important part — its effect on traffic is. They need to know where a crowd will gather, roughly how big it will be and, above all, when it will be leaving. That makes it far easier to judge where and when demand for a ride will come up.
finish time · headcount · place Do you drive a taxi?A restaurant, bar, café or shop can judge its trade better knowing about an event close by. The difference between an ordinary evening and a concert for several hundred people can mean different shifts, bigger stock or longer opening hours.
turnout · time · distanceHere are the nearest events already in the system. Each of them is also a piece of information that visitors, organisers and services nearby can put to different uses.