RE: WA scoring tables in machine-readable format?

That will be great! Thanks Andy

Best regards,

Martin



From: Andy Robinson [mailto:andy@reportlab.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2024 10:09 AM
To: Martin Alvarez Espinar <martinalvarez.espinar.ext@huawei.com>
Cc: public-opentrack@w3.org
Subject: Re: WA scoring tables in machine-readable format?

Hi Martin

Andras has actually given us the tables in a readable format; we have a compiled file in OpenTrack and a function to calculate them, and will be rolling out display, and permission to use them.  However, the thing which is never really settled is whether this information could be publicly released as open data or open source code; World Athletics scoring PDFs still say "all rights reserved".  I hope we can soon have a meeting with World Athletics involvement, and perhaps discuss this.  If they gave approval we could move the code to athlib almost instantly.

- Andy



On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 at 08:44, Martin Alvarez Espinar <martinalvarez.espinar.ext@huawei.com<mailto:martinalvarez.espinar.ext@huawei.com>> wrote:
Dear all,

During the AthTech in Malta we discussed about the possibility to define and implement some reference tools and services to help the development of tools. One of the examples we discussed in the past were the scoring grades for masters. This could be implemented as a kind of open source service (i.e., API) so the rules are transparent.

Something that could really interesting for clubs and regional federations – indeed, I spoke yesterday with Ivan about this – is the scoring tables, available under the Technical Information section of World Athletics [1]. We could use this group, and the github repository to maintain the algorithms and reference data.

We wonder if these tables are available in a machine-readable format (now in PDF, and difficult to process). Anyone knows? Otherwise I could ask WA directly.

Thanks in advance,

Martin

[1] https://worldathletics.org/about-iaaf/documents/technical-information





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