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Martin Alvarez-Espinar edited this page Feb 15, 2021 · 5 revisions

Open Athletics Meeting

When / Where

Agenda:

  • OpenTrack API documentation. Better documents with real examples.
  • Schema.org, use cases to promote the data
  • Competition program items.
  • Data duplication (athletes).
  • Zadar SporTech Fest 2021 + AthTech Update.
  • AOB

Minutes

Present:

- Andy W.(OpenTrack)
- Andy R. (OpenTrack)
- Jonny C. (OpenTrack)
- Mark (Athletiek.nu)
- Johannes R. (Humotion)
- Gus (OpenTrack)
- Ben (OpenTrack)
- Nicolas L. (EA)
- Martin Alvarez (Huawei)
- Duje B (TrackMeetings.info)
- Mirko (Tilastopaja)

OpenTrack API documentation.

- Enhanced API on api.opentrack.run
- Documentation and examples to inform how to add/edit new competitions. Friendly examples.
- Ben has been working on the API
- Adding /json the URL path of any competition gets the JSON in raw.
- More examples with the structure of competitions.
- OpenTrack scripts on GitHub with the real examples. 
- Open to 3rd-party event organizers in the future.
- Some metadata to identify the organizer and origin.
- For meeting organizers, for World Athletics Silver and Bronze meetings, their results should be homogeneous. We are motivating them to publish their data on opentrack.

Schema.org, use cases to promote the data

- High level summary that could be interesting for general audience (start list, results, top competitors, etc.)
- Most exciting results on the competition;
- This could be done using age grades, and results for kids and adults. This gives us an objective measure of the most exciting results.
- Using IAAF scoring tables (Hungarian Scores) we can have coefficients to compare scores, so we can have objective top performances.
- Start list. How to get an objective measurement of the top competitors of the meeting. All-time top ten performances of the country could be a reference of the current athletes.

Competition program items.

- Objective: sharing the data before the competition. 
- For instance, I want to know if there are triple jump competitions in the event program. 
- TrackMeeting's Proposal: {"age": "abs", "sex": "m", "note": null, "prop": null, "entry": null, "start": "2021-01-31T11:00:00", "setting": "i", "category": "-", "discipline": "pv"} -> statistics, age, category (World Athletics), 
- OpenTrack's Proposal: There are tables with event code (discipline), age groups, gender, category (as unitary physical events).
- ACTION: Martin to create an (editable) page with common discipline codes . May we open a dedicated page with the list of identifiers. https://docs.opentrack.run/cms/events/. > Action done with proposal of taxonomy: https://github.com/espinr/opentrack-cg/tree/master/spec/disciplines

Data duplication (athletes)

- Duplicates of athletes when entered information for first time.
- We should offer ways to detect exact duplicates and near duplicates. 
- Some techniques: Reversing dates, etc.
- Martin to open an issue to track ideas and continue the discussion with external parties.

Zadar SporTech Fest 2021 + AthTech Update

- The event will be streamed online.
- Trade fair + competition spaces for exhibitors to present their technologies
- In the program: Apart from Track and Field competitions, Ice hockey in Zadar! Free climbing, drone racing
- Multimedia companies, with production of the events. 
- After Torun Champs., we will be able to know the level of commitment of federations in the AthTech event.

AOB

- European Master Athletics will organize the outdoor Champs in Montegordo in Sep. Oct, 2021. We hope there is no overlap. 
- Next meeting:  15th March (one hour behind) 13:00 UTC/14:00 CET
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