Re: Early draft of shared activity list

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the introduction and welcome to the group. For now it would be
great if you could provide any feedback on the list.

For our activity list we've agreed a strategy that involves merging several
existing lists to create a common reference point. It would be useful to
compare data and ensure there's alignment where useful.

Cheers,

L.


On 9 May 2017 at 15:02, Martin Alvarez-Espinar <
martin.alvarez@fundacionctic.org> wrote:

> Hi Leigh, all,
>
> My apologies. I recently joined OpenActive, and I didn't introduce myself.
> In brief, I work for CTIC, a Spanish technology centre involved in *-Data.
> Also, playing the role of Head at W3C Office in Spain, and Athletics
> enthusiast.
>
> Currently, I'm working on a model to represent Athletics (high-level
> events, competition management, competitors and results) [1]. We call it
> OpenTrack, and we recently opened a Community Group. European Athletics is
> supporting the idea of having this common vocabulary to represent Athletics
> so we will spread our work with other federations easily. All works are
> public in our Github repo [2].
>
> Apart from the conceptual model, I'm trying to define a taxonomy of
> Athletics disciplines that can be aligned with yours. We are at an early
> stage [3] but I see some points where I can provide feedback to this
> activity list. Taxonomy of disciplines [3] includes the type of events and
> some properties needed to represent each one (i.e., pentathlon is different
> if held either indoors or outdoors). Should I comment on / edit the
> spreadsheet or just reply by email? I'm glad to collaborate.
>
> Of course, since our idea is creating a subsequent RDF schema, along with
> some SKOS taxonomies, we'll be aligned with OpenActive and other existing
> works.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Martin
>
> [1] https://w3c.github.io/opentrack-cg/spec/model/overview
> [2] https://github.com/w3c/opentrack-cg
> [3] https://w3c.github.io/opentrack-cg/spec/model/disciplines
>
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> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 11:28 AM Leigh Dodds <leigh.dodds@theodi.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The following google doc has an early draft of a shared activity list.
>> The list combines the existing lists that have been shared with the group
>> to date, with some additional descriptions.
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yWpVXGr91NiqWuCr7EBdVI2uhzxgN
>> 3Qw-oIKNMuhTeQ/edit#gid=1315372676
>>
>> Thanks for Kim and Becky for taking a lead on this work.
>>
>> Please have a look at the list and share your feedback with the group.
>>
>> There are a few items to note what I'd like to start discussing in
>> tomorrow's call.
>>
>> There are a few terms in yellow which have been flagged up for further
>> discussion
>>
>> Some items are missing descriptions, which will need to be added.
>>
>> The list currently have Sport and Physical Activity as top terms. This is
>> because in the current data, everything falls into one of those two
>> categories. But there are reasons why they may be better represented as
>> collections. I'm interested in views on this.
>>
>> We are using the SKOS standard to organise the list, there's a reasonable
>> overview of its key points on Wikipedia:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Knowledge_Organization_
>> System#Overview
>>
>> Representing activities as concepts (or terms) gives us more flexibility,
>> as we can attach notes, documentation, identifiers and add cross-references
>> between them.
>>
>> We can also represent activities as collections. This allows us to group
>> together sports and physical activities in multiple ways. But we then don't
>> have the option to annotate or organise those collections.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> L.
>>
>> --
>> Leigh Dodds, Senior Consultant, theODI.org
>> @ldodds
>> The ODI, 65 Clifton Street, London EC2A 4JE
>>
>>


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