- From: Andy Robinson <andy@reportlab.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 00:06:10 +0000
- To: public-opentrack <public-opentrack@w3.org>
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
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