Competition Types [was Re: Meeting 22 Nov (09:00 UTC)]

Thanks, Nicolas.


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> - As under Competition Feature Type (7.7), there is the following feature:
> "feature:A Performance achieved at altitude", wouldn't it be interesteting
> to add an optional attribute "Altitude" to the class Place (6.13), allowing
> to give the altitude information of a specific venue.
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+1 as well.

Included a property "elevation" for venues. It already exists in schema.org.
The document is updated:
https://w3c.github.io/opentrack-cg/spec/model/#geo-coordinates


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> - Does the data model allow to categorize the category of "competition" or
> "competition series" like it is done on the EA calendar ?(ex. World
> Championships, Area Championships, National Championships, IAAF meet, EAA
> meet, national label meet....). It doesn't bring value for that meet in
> itself, but that would be useful later, looking at the statistics angle, as
> it will allow to extract and group results of the same type. If all
> National championships from Europe are tagged as National Championships,
> you can filter those results easily from the mass of result files.That
> could also be useful to reflect a certain hierarchy of events at the time
> when the IAAF and EA are setting different meet categories for the purpose
> of the new athletes rankings. However, that would require to create a new
> list of values, so I'm not sure if that would fit in the high level
> definition of the data model.
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+1

I opened an issue for this: https://github.com/w3c/opentrack-cg/issues/25

Apart from an aditional "type of competition" property, I see a common
taxonomy with the main competitions.

I analysed the EAA's calendar of competitions and I see 53 categories of
events (see file attached), such as:
* National Cross Country Championships (58)
* National Indoor Championships (113)
* National Mountain Running Championships (26)
* European Athletics Road Area Permit Races (7)
* IAAF Cross Country Permit Meetings (6)
* IAAF Diamond League Meetings (14)
…

I see tree different angles here:
 1) discipline (e.g., XC, Road Races, Indoor Track and Field, etc.)
 2) spatial/administrative scope (National, European, IAAF)
 3) nature of competition (League, Championships,…)

Our model already may cover (1) with the basic discipline taxonomy. Usually
competition calendars include a filter for this. If the taxonomy is well
defined is another issue :-)

(2) may be solved with a sub-property of "spatial coverage". The question
here is if we should indicate either (a) the level of coverage (National,
International, Local) or (b) the place itself (e.g., EEA-countries,
IAAF-territories, Spain, France, Surrey county, etc.). Of course, both
options need predefined values to achieve interoperability.

I'm not sure if we need (3). The descriptive title may be enough.

What do you think?

Best,

Martin




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