Data Project Congress-Convention 2017 · European Athletics Mission & Data Project 2. Federation...
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Agenda
1. European Athletics Mission & Data Project
2. Federation Management and Entry tool
3. Get Active – Real size demo for timing a cross country race
4. OpenTrack Community/Standard/Data Protection Regulation
5. Live results Capture
6. What challenges do you face in your federations? How can we help?
10:15 Coffee Break
What is the data in Athletics?
• Federation’s details, athlete’s data, etc…
• Structure and Results of the competitions
• Processing of the results: bests lists, rankings, cross reference, etc…
• Curation of the data: data to be updated due to doping offences, transfer of allegiance, change of name, etc…
EUROPEAN ATHLETICS Mission Statement
• Map the situation of results collection and distribution in Europe. Survey the federations
• Identify the weaknesses and offer solutions
• Create synergies, activate the community and raise awareness
• Inform about regulations. Educate. Advise
Why?
Improve how athletics data is handled
• Collect more consistent data (Best Lists, Qualification process) for European Athletics database (hosted by Tilastopaja)
• Provide data to the RANKING project: 300+ competitions a year
Current situation:
o 50 meetings uploaded automatically
o 200 meetings manually (website copy/paste, pdf…)
Why?
Development of Member Federation
• Raise the IT standard of the federations
• Give them tools to manage their federations
• Improve the way they manage statistics: hosting, publication
This will help federations save time and grow the sport
European Athletics Ecosystem
51 Member Federations
European Athletics Statistics database(managed by Tilastopaja)
EA Meetings(Classic, Premium)
IAAF meetings(DL, World Challenge)
150 National Meetings
National Champs
International Competitions (IAAF WC, Universiades,
EYOF, etc…
How do we receive results?
• Automatic data exchange
current limitation: ad-hoc data format
• By e-mail (xml, xls, doc, pdf)
• Results collected through tools
current limitation: very early stage
Automatic data exchange: FIN, EST, FRA, CZE, POL, UKR
Advanced collaboration : DEN, IRL
Central system, but no automatic export: AUT, BUL, GBR, GRE, ISL, LAT, NED, NOR, POR, ROM, SLO, ESP
Countries with no central system/sporadic results: ALB, AND, ARM, AZE, BLR, BIH, CRO, CYP, GEO, LTU, LUX, MLT, MDA, MNE, RUS, SVK, SWE
Countries no sending anything/format unusable: BEL, ITA, HUN, GER, SUI, ISR, TUR
No contact yet: GIB, KOS, LIE, MKD, MON, SMR
Current situation of the RESULTS COLLECTION
Current situation of the RESULTS COLLECTION
Data exchange situation in the 51 Member Federations
Auto
Manual
Difficult
Poor Data Collection andformat
What we don’t have
Meetings organisers sending us results directly
An exhaustive map of how members federations manage their data
Direct link to the athletes (cf. Data Protection)
What we want to achieve
• Receive the results in an AUTOMATED way from federations
(If they have a centralized system)
• Develop tools for federations to use
• Make our statistician happy
METHODOLOGY
Phase 0: Build an independent database dedicated to athletics
Ongoing RFI to find provider
Tilastopaja to remain the statistician to collect and curate the data
Phase 0: Common database
METHODOLOGY
Phase 1: Federation Management and Entries
Map all athletes, coaches, clubs and facilities in Europe
Phase 0: Common database
Phase 1: Maps athletes
METHODOLOGY
Phase 2 & 3: Data Capture, competition tool and data format standard
Creation of the tools and standard
Certification of the standard by w3c
Creation and activation of the community + workshops
Phase 0: Common database
Phase 1: Maps athletes
Phase 2 & 3: Collection of results
METHODOLOGY
Phase 4: Create a full competition software
Develop a solution managing the specific types of meetings, national competitions, clubs and local competitions…
Phase 0: Common database
Phase 1: Maps athletes
Phase 2 & 3: Collection of results
Phase 4: Comp Management
Partnership with ReportLab
• Source: opentrack.run
We found common ground with ReportLab
Creation of the OpenTrack movement
ReportLab & European Athletics
• Federation Management and Entries - Multi-lingual and responsive
• Statistics included: best lists, athlete profile
• Replicable with any federation
What have we built so far? (stage 1 – winter 2016-2017)
Agenda
1. European Athletics Mission & Data Project
2. Federation Management and Entry tool
3. Get Active – Real size demo for timing a cross country race
4. OpenTrack Community/Standard/Data Protection Regulation
5. Live results Capture
6. What challenges do you face in your federations? How can we help?
10:15 Coffee Break
Collaboration around the results exchange
ATHLETICS DATA CONFERENCE
2nd AthTech
5 – 6 October 2017
Vila Real de Santo Antonio/POR
Improve through collaboration
In 2016, the plan was to:
• create a standard for everyone to use
• create tools for federations
• grow the community
OpenTrack Community Deliverables
We developed a standard with the World Wide Web Consortium, ReportLab
• Common standards to represent and share the information among stakeholders
• Define the basic schemas and vocabularies to describe the world of athletics
• Validate the standard by w3c community to make it global
• Release: January 2018
We are growing the community
Timetronics Seltec
Tilastopaja
Domtel
Atletiek.nu
OpenTrack Community Deliverables
Development of the community
The KPIs to measure the growth of the community:
• 2 federations in 2015 had automated data exchange . We have 8 federations now
• 10 federations were active with us in 2015 against 40 federations in 2017
• 5 federations attended the data conference in 2016. 13 federations attended in 2017!!!
• (CRO, CZE, ESP, EST, FIN, GER, GRE, IRL, ISL, ITA, POL, POR, UKR)
AthTech 2017
First findings from last week’s conference…………..
• Need for legal advice on GDPR (in force from May 2018)
• Data protection best practice: “Results are transferable unlimitedly”
• Continue with the standard. It is now expected by January 2018
AthTech 2017
…………..further findings from last week’s conference
• Develop the Federation Management
Club Management tool?
• Widely use the live results/competition management in 2018
Any need for your competitions?
Agenda
1. European Athletics Mission & Data Project
2. Federation Management and Entry tool
3. Get Active – Real size demo for timing a cross country race
4. Open data/Standard/Data Protection Regulation
5. Live results Capture
6. What challenges do you face in your federations? How can we help?
10:15 Coffee Break
Data Capture tool
ReportLab & European Athletics
Live results
Results, collected on the field on mobile and tablets
Easily embedded in any website
Can be used at any of your competitions
What have we built so far? (stage 2 – summer 2017)
Agenda
1. European Athletics Mission & Data Project
2. Federation Management and Entry tool
3. Get Active – Real size demo for timing a cross country race
4. Open data/Standard/Data Protection Regulation
5. Live results Capture
6. What challenges do you face in your federations? How can we help?
10:15 Coffee Break
Next steps
• Understand your needs for the 2018 season to offer adequate help
• Update the statistical requirements with our new data standard
• Note the new dedicated e-mail address: [email protected]