Re: IPTC Sport Schema

schema.org usually has the unfortunate goal of having a simpler/less valid
ontology coincident with a better one.  So in schema.org we can use Role to
specify time-limited memberships like you encode in this schema directly.
But we also allow so#athlete as a time snapshot for membership (which is
frankly more used).  We also have so#homeTeam and so#awayTeam which are
again shortcuts for your participation alignments.  But the IPTC schema
seems like a great model to push in the direction of and I think many of
the types there could be directly co-typed with schema.org types without
problems.

On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 7:52 PM Paul Kelly <paul@polvo.ca> wrote:

> Hi Public Schema/Schema.org <http://schema.org/> people, it’s been a
> while since I’ve participated here. I’m Paul Kelly, lead of the IPTC’s
> sports content group.
>
> I’m writing to tell you about the IPTC’s ontology for representing sports
> competitions and results in RDF. It’s called IPTC Sport Schema and you can
> check it out here:
>
> https://sportschema.org/
>
> Here’s a diagram:
>
> https://sportschema.org/schema-diagram/
>
> The site has samples, a SPARQL endpoint and copious documentation. There
> have been initiatives in the past for representing sports data on the web.
> Any interest still?
>
> Apart from structuring complex competitions and athlete histories, we
> incorporated a slew of sports vocabs that arose from the IPTC’s SportsML
> standard:
>
> https://cv.iptc.org/newscodes#sportcvs
>
> I’d like to hear any thoughts people on this list might have about what
> we’ve done. This thing will evolve and your contributions are welcome and
> appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul Kelly
>
> -----
> Paul Kelly
> Lead, IPTC Sports Content Working Group
>