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Open Athletics: Global Data Interoperability in Sports #60

Closed espinr closed 1 month ago

espinr commented 2 months ago

Session description

A group of sports data enthusiasts motivated by the opportunities the open data promised during the rising data revolution in the public sector launched the Open Athletics CG (officially named OpenTrack CG) in 2017. This CG aimed to motivate the exchange of Athletics data across federations, clubs and businesses.

Interoperability was and still is a challenge due to the heterogeneity of governing bodies and systems (i.e., lack of a central or a federated system to collect results automatically at the international level). Competitions are similar worldwide (i.e., changing distances and units, throwing different objects, and using different surfaces), and most of the information, like the results or the competitors, is public, so global interoperability seems feasible.

We defined a model and vocabulary, but simpler solutions are still in use.

Since the beginning, European Athletics has been one of the most active interoperability advocates. Now, World Athletics is also in the conversations. This session aims to present our activities and current projects' status and bring more stakeholders and ideas into the group (most of the participants are from Europe, so we would like to expand the scope).

Session goal

Redefine the strategy of the group, onboard new stakeholders

Additional session chairs (Optional)

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Who can attend

Anyone may attend (Default)

IRC channel (Optional)

open-athletics

Other sessions where we should avoid scheduling conflicts (Optional)

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Instructions for meeting planners (Optional)

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Agenda for the meeting.

  1. Introduction Open Athletics
  2. Current and upcoming activities
  3. Open discussion

Links to calendar

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espinr commented 1 month ago

Withdrawing the session due to lack of interest. Also bad timing for the European participants that are part of these activities. Anyone feel free to ping me if interested in exploring more.