OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER. ReportLab and OpenTrack. Who are we?

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1 ReportLab and OpenTrack Who are we?

2 Company and Team

3 Company and Team

4 Our solutions journey in athletics Started pro-bono league and county sites FINODEX - open data accelerator Information vision for the sport Working 14 months with European Athletics

5 Mission Statement Save time for all the volunteers, make it more fun for the participants, and help the sport to grow

6 Three pillars to the system...

7 Vision One software suite to manage all competition types, all year round, at all levels of the sport Cloud based and easy to use.

8 Federation Management

9 Techies love Estonia.. Simple governance structure Date of birth - Open Data Unique ID - Social security number Membership status - Open Data Proper historical results database

10 Date of Birth may not be enough...

11 Demo time.

12 Club view Must show who is current. View is available to athlete - self checking

13 Team selection We know all the registered athletes in a given club/age/gender cohort Selecting a team becomes merely a few double-clicks

14 Stats and rankings.. Something for the athlete: history Needs athlete identification and data cleansing.

15 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER Cross Country

16 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER How most people do it...

17 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER Key Achievement: Live Results

18 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER European XC 2016 Recorded live, as backup to Omega Two iphones versus a truck of equipment Live team results on the line

19 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER Let s race...

20 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER

21 5 - Towards an Open Platform

22 Three pillars to the system...

23 Benefits of a common standard For decision makers Cheaper software Interoperability Less risk than going it alone More modern software What it means to the sport.. Huge volunteer time saving More fun for participants

24 Standard launched at AthTech - last week

25 Open, common database Organisations Feds, clubs, uni s, leagues, regionals People Athletes, Coaches, Officials Venues Tracks, HQs, Road & XC courses Competitions Track, Road, XC People data needs to comply with GDPR

26 We need a common database We need common identifiers for things Common URLs for all resources Website exists: Example: IOC-like codes for all clubs

27 Club Codes

28 Open standard for data exchange JSON format - your phone understands it Standardised event codes Always use 3000SC Works with spreadsheets too Easy to understand

29 Open source code All the tables and calculations, correct, once Combined events scoring Masters age grading High jump ranking Graphics, charts, displays - share and re-use

30 Tools for collaboration World Wide Web Consortium process Mailing list anyone can join Place to put code AthTech conferences and meetups Don t do it on your own - talk to us!

31 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER The European Data Capture System Andy Robinson, OpenTrack

32 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER Goal: capture data for approx. 300 ranked competitions, promptly and accurately

33 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER Problem 1 - how? Everyone s systems are different Results are collected in spreadsheets, national systems and desktop packages. They appear on web sites, in spreadsheets and as PDFs. There are no standards for interchange of data Solution: Standards, tools to upload and check them. W3C standards project

34 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER Problem 2 - why? Not motivated Competition over. Results in Excel/PDF. Exhausted volunteer! Solution: Incentives: microsites, live results on web, automatic scoring. Make it easier and faster than ever to produce results.

35 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER The solution 4 logical stages Standards - thank you Martin et al. Data transfer Error correction Fun stuff

36 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER Data transfer Set up competitions Organisers set up screens List of major competitions

37 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER Organiser s competition set up screen

38 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER List of competitions: have yours here

39 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER Data Input Depends on tech literacy of organiser

40 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER Direct Input World Championships enter the results yourself (on test!) Athtech 200m or the European XC champs: our own race timing Paste them direct Upload them FinishLynx

41 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER Enter data directly into grid

42 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER Mobile timed results at the highest level: Chia 16

43 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER FinishLynx results straight onto the web: UK 10,000m champs 2017

44 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER Data Quality Validate the data as it goes in Work with Tilastopaja to clean data Recognise athlete names Make data open - more eyes better Log changes - audit trail

45 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER Where does data then go? Who wants it? Subscribe - national, european, masters, personal... Offer organisers microsites Excel downloads with splits - for the real data geeks Live team competitions - updates on phones Make results fun - even field events!

46 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER Excel download including splits

47 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER Mobile friendly sites to follow events live

48 OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER Follow field events graphically live

49 1. Prepare Set up fixtures you want to track. Invite organisers. Online directory 2. Promote Open, public fixtures directory. Like/share/tweet about ranked meetings. Help organisers promote 3. Input - 3 ways A: DIRECT INPUT Multi user, mobile devices, paste or key in B: EXCEL: Upload file in standardised format,, get instant feedback C: SYSTEMS e.g HyTek, D3, National system. Upload in standard format via our API OpenTrack Tilastopaja Competition Microsites Check all inputs. Display and visualise. Allow review Lookups Provides SB/PB and name recognition to OpenTrack Meet organiser certifies and publishes Intelligent checks, revisions, QA Open Database Checked results are free to re-publish: OpenStreetMap-style license ( copyleft ) Results Manage data over time (doping bans, recalculate) Basis for rankings NATIONAL SITES Club level Data downloadable in standard, open formats. SPECIALIST Masters Rankings, Multi-events, Research Display on EA site with web widgets

50 8 - Making it fun

51 We re a data publishing company.

52 Tilastopaja has a huge database

53 Imagine what we can do together...