Meeting 2017 06 07

Meeting: Wed 07 June, 08:00 UTC (See other locations)

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Agenda

1. Status of the conceptual model
2. Status of the vocabulary (and new docs)
3. AOB

Minutes

Present:

• Andy
• Martin
• Antonio
• Chiheb
• Nicolas
• Peter Crawshaw

Status of the work

• Martin: I’ve working on a new document with the vocabulary. Apart from the conceptual model, a set of terms and classes to define everything the model represents.
• … Also information about formats (JSON-LD) and explanation about Semantic Web paradigm.
• … [ Vocabulary and how-to explained]
• Andy: This is better, easier to understand and to implement
• … I’ll continue writing code.
• … Also, I’ll send issues to Github. I have some suggestion such as types of records.
• … Also about clubs and federations. It’s more complex than only this.
• …I model that as Organizations and relations between them.
• … Universities/schools/leagues, etc.
• Martin: OK, maybe the model should be more generic. Organisations and (member and memberOf properties).

Countries

• Nicolas: We use IOC codes, no ISO.
• Andy: We early agreed that we would be using ISO country codes. Also I have a tool to convert IOC codes into ISO codes.
• Martin: [Showing an example based on Linked Data with all countries and maps of codes]
• … http://idi.fundacionctic.org/disaster-fp7-skosic/describe?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fpublications.europa.eu%2Fresource%2Fauthority%2Fcountry%2FSVN&lang=sh-cyrl
• … Multilingual and universal.

Roles in competition (Officials)

• [Peter Crawshaw joined the meeting]
• Peter: Volunteer official in track and field games. Judge and active across the spectrum of Athletics. Involved in EA.
• [Round of introductions]
• Andy: IAAF Rules mention a list of well defined jobs in the competitions.
• Peter: You started at the right place (IAAF). Maybe we need to define also lower levels of expertise and qualification.
• Andy: Qualifications should be described in a common way .
• Peter: Modelling officials is not easy. In England we have five levels so firstly we need an alignment with the rest of Europe (most of them have three).
• … Safety in competition is well defined (throws, position of marshals in XC races, etc.)
• … We are looking for a common system for officials. We use email/phone/shared docs, but not a common platform.
• … Keep the data up-to-date is difficult for us.
• … As an start point, having a list of stakeholders roles with definitions would be nice.
• Martin: list of roles + description + required skills
• Peter: I’ll share with you references about rules and spreadsheet with basic information about officials.
• Andy: This is a first approach to start the process of standardisation.
• Nicolas: Regarding officials, we have a tool for communication based on appointments. People reject/confirm appointments. It’s based on our event management system.
• Peter: Interesting tool. We need a tool based on per-day appointments.
• Andy: Peter if you were able to join us in the next weeks, Nicolas could show that event managent system.
• Peter: I’ll let EA know about this group.

Next meeting

• Wednesday, 14th June (8:00 UTC)