Re: Model proposed by WA for competition results

Happy New Year to all.

It's good to see this starting to move.

Martin, you ask "could we have string IDs for local athletes"?  In my view
it would be better to have completely different fields for athlete IDs.

The "World Athletics" ID will be special.   And 99% of athletes (club
level, kids, road races) will not have one (maybe 90% one day).  So I would
suggest this is a distinct field.

OpenTrack also has a "national_id" field on each Person, which can store
whatever the ID is in the country of competition, and that's a string.  In
addition an athlete can have multiple roles within organisations, and these
too can have an ID, so I can store Martin's UK athletics number as well as
his Spanish one.   But I don't know if this is of any interest to World
Athletics; presumabl;y they just want us to look people up, label them with
their WA ID of they have one, and submit.

- Andy