Re: Proposal – extension for Athletics

>
> @Aaron,
> In your work with EA and eSports arenas, bookings, and planning... do
> ya'll have any special Types yet that would fall in the "planning" category
> that Martin mentions ? Could you ask some of those eSports event planners
> and organizers if there are missing properties for our Event Type or
> towards publishing in general ?
>

> You can capture all of these gaps under this extension and as time moves
> forward, those Types and Properties that are useful for all Domains can be
> pulled out and put into our Core for wider cross Domain usage.
>

For SportsEvent specifically the most notable additions are the property
hasQualifier and its inverse property isQualifierFor (kind of analogous to
OpenTrack's prevRound and nextRound), and hasPrize.

With that wider cross-domain usage in mind, the types for hasQualifier and
hasPrize, Qualification and Prize respectively, are both simply
intangibles.  A Qualification might be, in sports, what qualifies you to
participate in a sports event, but might also be what qualifies you to get
into law school (obviously this is not far off OpenTracks
QualificationCriteria).  A Prize in our context is a prize for a level of
achievement in a sports event, but in other contexts might be prize for a
contest.

And yes, we're reaching out to those in the industry to help inform the
development process (and would be grateful if anyone reading this forwards
it to any parties they think might be interested in commenting or
contributing to this effort).


> Another tip from me:
> Also, anything special about the publishing of results themselves ?  I
> think most of that we have addressed already, but perhaps there are Machine
> oriented properties or attributes of "ways to publish" or interprocess
> properties that are missing that help with language translation of results
> or specific publishing platform properties that we are missing...so also
> think about those as well.  Don't just think about it in terms of  "its a
> big Excel / CSV table of results".
>
> Think like a machine first....then apply your human brain. :)
>

Nothing special, just working out our approach.  We hope to fork the Git as
per Richard's instructions
<http://dataliberate.com/2016/02/10/evolving-schema-org-in-practice-pt1-the-bits-and-pieces/>
(machines
FTW:) but might publish something more lightweight (it's at least
well-documented) to get the discussion started.

Martin, looking forward getting that out and then hearing your feedback so
we can, indeed, seek alignment.