ReportLab and OpenTrack OPENTRACK - MAKING … · OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER Mission Statement Save time for all the volunteers, make it more fun for the participants,

OPENTRACK - MAKING ATHLETICS GO FASTER

ReportLab and OpenTrack

Who are we?


Company and Team


Company and Team


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


Mission Statement

Save time for all the volunteers,

make it more fun for the participants,

and help the sport to grow


Three pillars to the system...


Vision

One software suite to manage all competition

types, all year round, at all levels of the sport

Cloud based and easy to use.


Federation Management


Techies love Estonia…..

● Simple governance structure

● Date of birth - Open Data

● Unique ID - Social security number

● Membership status - Open Data

● Proper historical results database


Date of Birth may not be enough...


Demo time….

https://estonia.opentrack.run/

https://test-estonia.opentrack.run/


● Must show who is current.● View is available to athlete - self checking

Club view


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


Stats and rankings..● Something for the athlete: history

● Needs athlete identification and data cleansing.


Cross Country


How most people do it...


Key Achievement: Live Results


European XC 2016Recorded live, as backup to Omega

Two iphones versus a truck of equipment

Live team results on the line


Let’s race...

https://opentrack.info/c/eacon/

https://opentrack.info/c/eacon/



5 - Towards an Open Platform


Three pillars to the system...


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


Standard “launched” at AthTech - last week


Open, common database

People data needs to comply with GDPR

PeopleAthletes, Coaches,

Officials

CompetitionsTrack, Road, XC

VenuesTracks, HQs,

Road & XC courses

OrganisationsFeds, clubs, uni’s, leagues, regionals


We need a common database

We need common identifiers for things

Common URLs for all resources

Website exists: https://data.opentrack.run/

Example: IOC-like codes for all clubs

http://data.opentrack.run/


Club Codes


Open standard for data exchange

JSON format - your phone understands it

Standardised event codes

● Always use “3000SC”

Works with spreadsheets too

Easy to understand


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


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!


The European Data Capture System

Andy Robinson, OpenTrack


Goal: capture data for approx. 300 ranked competitions, promptly and accurately


Problem 1 - how?

Everyone’s systems are differentResults 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


Problem 2 - why?

Not motivatedCompetition 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.


The solution

4 logical stages● Standards - thank you Martin et al.● Data transfer● Error correction● Fun stuff


Data transfer

Set up competitions

● Organisers set up screens

● List of major competitions

https://test-data.opentrack.run/x/2017/GBR/wc/manage/

http://data.opentrack.run


Organiser’s competition set up screen


List of competitions: have yours here


Data Input

Depends on tech literacy of organiser


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

https://test-data.opentrack.run/x/2017/GBR/wc/

https://opentrack.info/c/athtechchallenge/race1/r/

https://opentrack.info/c/chia2016/senm/recs/

https://entries.opentrack.run/2017/not/


Enter data directly into grid


Mobile timed results at the highest level: Chia ‘16


FinishLynx results straight onto the web: UK 10,000m champs 2017


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


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!

https://test-data.opentrack.run/x/2017/GBR/herc5k/

http://dna.run

https://test-data.opentrack.run/x/2017/GBR/wc/event/22/1/1/


Excel download including splits


Mobile friendly sites to follow events live


Follow field events graphically live

C: SYSTEMSe.g HyTek, D3, National system.

SPECIALISTMasters

Rankings, Multi-events,

Research

Open Database

2. PromoteOpen, public fixtures directory.Like/share/tweet about ranked meetings. Help organisers promote

Meet organiser certifies and publishes

OpenTrack

3. Input - 3 ways

NATIONAL SITES

Club level

B: EXCEL:Upload file in

standardised format,, get instant feedback

Data downloadable in standard, open formats. Display on EA site

with “web widgets”

Tilastopaja

Provides SB/PB and name

recognition to OpenTrack

Intelligent checks,revisions, QA

Manage data over time (doping bans,

recalculate)

Basis for rankings

A: DIRECT INPUTMulti user, mobile devices, paste or key in

Competition MicrositesCheck all inputs. Display and visualise.

Allow review

Results

Lookups

1. PrepareSet up fixtures you want to track. Invite organisers. Online directory

Checked results are free to re-publish: OpenStreetMap-style license (“copyleft”)

Upload in standard format via our API


8 - Making it fun


We’re a data publishing company….


Tilastopaja has a huge database


Imagine what we can do together...

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