Meeting 2017 11 22

Meeting: Wed 22 November, 09:00 UTC (See other locations)

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Agenda

• Spreadsheet to collect information
• OpenTrack Lite Schema
• Schema.org Extension

Attendees:

• Andy W.
• Andy R.
• Eddy Vanuytven
• Martin
• Antonio
• Nicolas

Minutes:

Spreadsheet

• Martin: Spreadsheets could be another way to get information from organizers that cannot produce JSON.
• … It's just a way to produce the final format.
• … [Showing an example of athletes, clubs, orgs]
• … Just to clarify that people do not have to play with codes and weird things (countries, taxonomies will be expressed in combo-boxes).
• Andy: We use this approach as well.
• Martin: We can use your spreadsheets as well, of course. This is just a proof of concept.

Schema.org

• Martin: I’m in touch with the schema.org groups to extend sports in the core vocabulary.
• … I’ve created a draft to cover all our spec [http://athletics.sdo-athletics.appspot.com/] (early proposal)
• … [Presented the work]
• … Do you think this is relevant? should we move it forward and present the work?
• Andy: We do not have resources to commit on it.
• Martin: I’ll upload the work on the repository and we’ll see.

OpenTrack Lite Schema

• [Andy showing data.opentrack.run]

Eddy Vanuytven

• Eddy Introduction of Timetronics
• Andy: Old Timetronics systems that work
• … Complete meeting management solution
• … Eddy is willing to generate data using our model
• Eddy: We have already started.
• … Not yet complete but we are working on it.
• … We are exporting ~50% of our competition data in JSON format.
• … We will be able to export the rest soon.
• Andy: data.opentrack.run is the first place to look at.
• … People can upload stuff here and others can download it.
• Nicolas: We want to send information from various federations to Tilastopaja (the DB)
• … This is the first state to compile information. People will be able to publish their data on their websites.
• … As soon as Andy and Martin publish the proposal of the standard we will have the complete picture.
• Andy: [Looking for Eddy’s town tracks]

AOB

• Andy: Privacy. Nicolas is leading the work nicely.
• Martin: Schema.org may represent events and this will be understood and represented by Google, Bing, Yandex, etc.
• … [showing example]
• Nicolas: Good to see this case,
• … Categories should be represented.
• … (international events)
• Martin: We can extend the model and create a taxonomy for categories.
• … It could be part of the scope of the group.
• Andy: Type of competition (XC, indoors)
• … Another level is the spatial coverage (international, national)
• … tilastopaja exports this so we can do it quickly if someone tells us the format.

Next meeting: 29th November, same time