Re: Brief notes about AthTech and Next Meetings

Hi all,

Just following up on this.  I'm very happy with the clarifications.

Our group's GitHub repo is at "https://github.com/openath" already, so
will fit very well with renaming to Open Athletics.

What we currently call "OpenTrack-lite JSON" will be extremely
concrete formats - basically whatever the structure of our own
database is!  This is already being exchanged by us and various
national federations, and we have many competitions available.
Because it's quite close to "only one way to do it", we can import and
export right now.

Our plans are to start writing out our reference data nightly into
static storage (maybe S3) and we should have thousands of clubs,
venues and competitions, with foreign key references.  We can then run
nightly jobs autogenerating the JSON LD from this, but so can others.

The "OpenAthletics standard" is then free to be JSON LD, which is much
more permissive (multi valued fields, multilingual, self-describing).

- Andy

Received on Wednesday, 17 October 2018 07:22:53 UTC