Competitions calendar

Hi all,

I probably can't make this Wednesday's call so am sharing some thoughts now.

I will try to expose a query-able API for what we have now (basically
the European calendar) for people to play with by the end of the
coming week.

Maxim Moinat (NL), Harry Prevor (USA) and Ivan Kachkivski (UKR) have
all offered to share calendar data, as have we.   OpenTrack has the
European calendar, plus definitive data for Estonia, Malta and (soon)
Belarus, plus a lot of competitions in our part of the UK.

We can provide a public, searchable database and APIs for
contributors, but probably not until after mid-May due to another
project.

So I suggest that, without worrying about standardisations, anyone
with a big competition database to share creates either a static
download in Excel, or (ideally) a JSON URL which can be called openly,
using whatever their natural field names are.   Then we can each see
who has which fields available, and review and discuss classifications
and how to search.

We could then modify the field structure in our own database to match
the consensus, and quickly generate APIs using Django ReST framework
or something similar.  Hopefully these could be solid by end of
season.


-- 
Andy

Received on Monday, 12 March 2018 00:06:38 UTC