Closed espinr closed 6 years ago
i've just created some datasets focusing on the 'administrative' levels of the iaaf, more specifically regional affiliations (i.e. eaa, caa, etc.) [1] & national federations (i.e. gibraltar amateur athletic association) [2].
There are several
Place
s in the model, as well asPostalAddress
es. To guarantee interoperability we need to recommend the way to describe countries.At first sight, I would recommend ISO 3166 codes, but I found that IAAF uses IOC codes that are different. For instance: SLO (IOC) - SVN (ISO3166) for Slovenia.
A colleague of mine suggested using a third schema wich includes both code schemes, also aligned with others such as ITU, NATO, IATA, etc. This could solve some of the problems we have:
I have to check if we can customize the list for us. This is, having a easy way to get the code (URI).