RE: Model proposed by WA for competition results

Hi Andy,

Thanks for your reply. Good to see this moving ahead.

Yesterday, Juan Jose clarified my (wrong) example. The Spanish system uses an internal ID that is numeric (an integer). Although they use another friendly identifier alternatively as a string (like the example I used), the local identifier typed as an integer could fit them.

I agree with the need for this “national id” field. My question is about the data type of the field. If any of the local systems use *strings* instead of *integers* to identify athletes.

All the best,

Martin

From: Andy Robinson [mailto:andy@reportlab.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 4, 2022 12:26 PM
To: Martin Alvarez Espinar <martinalvarez.espinar.ext@huawei.com>
Cc: Duje Bonacci <duje@trackmeetings.info>; public-opentrack@w3.org
Subject: 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