This is great to have a fresh website for our Open Athletics for our community, to share best practice and encourage our Member Federations to digitise!
Hi, I just noticed the email advertising the new site.
IMO a something more list-like of standards and tools would be useful, as I wanted to quickly see the “actual content”, but it was hard to spot it among all the text Technical reports and documents - Open Athletics Community Group Maybe something like cards would work better? Or adding the items to a menu (probably a dropdownable submenu)?
In particular I was looking for
- tools — to see if anything cool that consumes the jsonld is available
- examples — to see how other implement the stuff, but the “code examples” link leads to http://purl.org/athletics/codes which is not working (redirects to an URL without DNS records)
- data sources, i.e. other actual users that publish data in the open format
Sorry if my tone is a bit too direct. I am not trying to be harsh. Overall there’s nothing wrong with the site, I just couldn’t find some things as quickly as I was expecting to.
Hi @Dzhuris , thanks for the feedback.
Now that we have the new website, we can organize the activities and resources for a better user experience, we take note. So far, these technical reports have not been highlighted because they were never implemented in any system. I created some working concepts to prove and show the concept… you spotted the purl.org/athletics/code URL (I need to fix it, thanks for the heads-up). It was created as an early exercise of reference to prove the concept. After the first iterations of the models, we realized that they were too complex, so we decided to find a more relaxed approach using simple JSON, but we haven’t documented it in the repository.
So, we don’t have available datasets or tools 
Our intention with the new website, the forum and the open call for participation is boost the activities and create those things you mention. This is our expectation. Feel free to join the next meetings so we can discuss everything.
Thanks for the explanations!
How does one join the meetings? I received the email about the new site, but I don’t recall I’ve ever received or seen anything about the upcoming meetings or stuff like that.
Btw we’ve partially implemented the model. As much as was needed to share road running events: https://athletics.lv/race/27307.jsonld
At some point I’ve also made some simple PHP code examples within the same 5-object scope when we asked a partner to produce importable data using the model athletics-lv-json-ld/examples/php-oop at master · GlaivePro/athletics-lv-json-ld · GitHub
That is cool. It will be great to hear your experience and suggestions to improve the models.
Once you are registered in the community group, you should receive the notifications with the calendar invites. Anyway, I’ll send s reminder for the next (extraordinary) meeting, next week.
Juris, that’s very impressive!
I see you’ve also published PHP code to calculate IAAF points. Another idea for some useful wiki pages for this community.