Re: Proposal – extension for Athletics

Hi Martin,

Have you seen SportsML? They cover athletics among many other things as
part of the NewsML family of standards from IPTC.

I haven't used it recently, but the 2016 Olympics were covered using
SportsML so I assume it can handle athletics:
https://iptc.org/news/olympic-games-sportsml-3-0/

Hopefully you could base a lot of your work on their structures, or even
just create a mapping from NewsML/SportsML to schema.org which would help
many other people as well.

The NewsML folks have an open community, development wiki and mailing list
which I'm sure you would be welcome to join.

Hope that helps, and best of luck with the project!

Brendan
(Freelance consultant, Clueful Consulting Ltd in the UK)

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 3:40 PM Martin Alvarez-Espinar <
martin.alvarez@fundacionctic.org> wrote:

> Hi Dan, all,
>
> I'm sorry, I didn't introduce myself before. I'm Martin, working for CTIC
> —a Spanish technology center—, also Head of the W3C Spanish Office.
>
> We recently launched a Community Group called OpenTrack [1]. Our idea is
> developing a conceptual model for Athletics (management of competitions,
> competitors, results, etc.), and a subsequent vocabulary or schema about it.
>
> This schema would be useful either for professional (i.e., official track
> and field events) and amateur Athletics (i.e., charity running). This would
> be really interesting for planning athletics events, publishing results in
> a common way, having directories of athletes, teams, etc. European
> Athletics is supporting the idea, as well as other Open Data players
> (timekeeping, and reporting companies), so we will expect wide outreach.
>
> At first sight, our idea was having a complete ontology, but I think this
> vocabulary should be really flexible and easy to adopt. Thus, my proposal
> is creating a schema.org extension for this domain. There are dozens of
> core concepts that will be reused and others that can be enriched.
>
> Currently, we are already drafting the abstract model [2] to cover all the
> use cases and requirements. I did the exercise to check the potential
> alignment with schema.org and it seems feasible. We will continue with
> the work (everyone is welcome to join us). Unless you see any problem with
> it, we will start also with this potential extension. Thanks in advance.
>
> Best,
>
> Martin
>
> [1] https://www.w3.org/community/opentrack/
> [2] https://w3c.github.io/opentrack-cg/spec/model/overview
>
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