Published documents

Currently, we are working on what we call it, Open Athletics models, vocabularies, and tools:

Participants in this group may contribute with code recipes, libraries, and examples about the use of athletics information.

You can find all the ongoing activities in our public repository in Github.

Formats and standards

All documents will be written in English and encoded in UTF-8.

Schemas and vocabularies will be aligned with the existing W3C standards, in concrete with the Data on the Web specifications. Although they will be described as abstract vocabularies, they will be also modeled in RDF.

Can I use it?

Of course you can! Unless the piece of software or document listed in this repository has specified an explicit license, everything is under the W3C Software and Document License. This means that, by default, you have permission to copy, modify, and distribute OpenTrack works, with or without modification, for any purpose and without fee or royalty.

How can I participate?

Everyone —either W3C Member or not— is invited to join the W3C OpenTrack CG. Just click on the ‘join’ button, and register with your W3C account (in case you don’t have, please request one. Once you are a group member, you will be subscribed to the main mailing list and the calendar.

How to join?

First, join our forum so you can ask for help :)

  1. If you don’t have an account, apply for one.
  2. Login on the W3C system.
  3. And apply for joining the group.

If you have never used Github, please have a look at this guide on how to use Github at W3C.

References

This work is based on previous works on sports data modeling, such as:

  • IOC ODF
  • IPTC SportsML. Vocabularies for sharing content (e.g., news) about sports in general. There are some specific vocabularies for concrete sports. Athletics is missing.
  • BBC Sport Ontology. Lightweight ontology for publishing data about competitive sports events.