Re: Proposal – extension for Athletics

Thanks for the info, Brendan.

Apart from this SportsML, which definitely would be helpful to report
sports news, I found the Sports Ontology that BBC created [1] to represent
events and results. Both should be taken into account.

Best,

Martin

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport



On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 5:19 PM Brendan Quinn <brendan@cluefulmedia.com>
wrote:

> Hi Martin,
>
> Have you seen SportsML? They cover athletics among many other things as
> part of the NewsML family of standards from IPTC.
>
> I haven't used it recently, but the 2016 Olympics were covered using
> SportsML so I assume it can handle athletics:
> https://iptc.org/news/olympic-games-sportsml-3-0/
>
> Hopefully you could base a lot of your work on their structures, or even
> just create a mapping from NewsML/SportsML to schema.org which would help
> many other people as well.
>
> The NewsML folks have an open community, development wiki and mailing list
> which I'm sure you would be welcome to join.
>
> Hope that helps, and best of luck with the project!
>
> Brendan
> (Freelance consultant, Clueful Consulting Ltd in the UK)
>
> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 3:40 PM Martin Alvarez-Espinar <
> martin.alvarez@fundacionctic.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Dan, all,
>>
>> I'm sorry, I didn't introduce myself before. I'm Martin, working for CTIC
>> —a Spanish technology center—, also Head of the W3C Spanish Office.
>>
>> We recently launched a Community Group called OpenTrack [1]. Our idea is
>> developing a conceptual model for Athletics (management of competitions,
>> competitors, results, etc.), and a subsequent vocabulary or schema about it.
>>
>> This schema would be useful either for professional (i.e., official track
>> and field events) and amateur Athletics (i.e., charity running). This would
>> be really interesting for planning athletics events, publishing results in
>> a common way, having directories of athletes, teams, etc. European
>> Athletics is supporting the idea, as well as other Open Data players
>> (timekeeping, and reporting companies), so we will expect wide outreach.
>>
>> At first sight, our idea was having a complete ontology, but I think this
>> vocabulary should be really flexible and easy to adopt. Thus, my proposal
>> is creating a schema.org extension for this domain. There are dozens of
>> core concepts that will be reused and others that can be enriched.
>>
>> Currently, we are already drafting the abstract model [2] to cover all
>> the use cases and requirements. I did the exercise to check the potential
>> alignment with schema.org and it seems feasible. We will continue with
>> the work (everyone is welcome to join us). Unless you see any problem with
>> it, we will start also with this potential extension. Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> [1] https://www.w3.org/community/opentrack/
>> [2] https://w3c.github.io/opentrack-cg/spec/model/overview
>>
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