Meeting 2018 01 10

Meeting: Wed 10 January, 09:00 UTC (See other locations)

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Present:

Martin: I created a list of event types, from the Spanish Federation DB. More than 600 that I filtered, deleting duplicates. Now we have 300+ different event types.
… I’ve used the model to describe the features of disciplines (height of hurdles, weight of throwing items…)
… So the list in the spreadsheet are examples, implementations of the model.
… Maybe we can work just with the official ones for IAAF, and others we need.
Andy: We need an additional metadata on hurdles: 'First Hurdle distance’.
Andy: Please take into account knockout field events. Like football tournament.
Martin: This should be part of the ‘Competition’ entity, not discipline itself. It doesn’t matter how is structured the competition for the features of the unit competition discipline.

Antonio: I’ve sent a pull request to enhance the quality of the files uploaded to Github. It’s a script for continuous integration systems to verify the format and suggests corrections.
Martin: Fantastic!! Thanks. Please do it.
Andy: About publication of data. The clubs database should be open to all, Integrity of data is important.
… I can give you access to query the DB, or
… Bulk static data into GitHub
Martin: I think this static data (spreadsheet CSV) on Github is a great idea. This format could be interesting for those who are not familiar with APIs and so on.
Antonio: Andy, if you could export it into another more Web-friendly format, it will be great.
Andy: In Python, we can create automatic exporters that would run every night.