sportsstandards.org
The Sports Standards Alliance
http://www.sportsstandards.org/nf
Niche Formats: Custom and Proprietary Data Protocols. Because there will always be innovators working with sports data, there will always be custom formats that people and organizations devise to describe some aspects of sports action. When these formats are released to the public, we'd like to link to them from this page. Here is a starter set of Niche Formats that have proven popular in the sports data processing world:. The RetroSheet Intra-play Notation. Used at retrosheet.org.
sportsstandards.org
The Sports Standards Alliance
http://www.sportsstandards.org/oc
Open Content: Data Available to the Public. Several valiant data-gathering projects have blossomed on the Web whereby groups of volunteers work together to enter historical data that's in the public domain for the benefit of sports data junkies everywhere. This page aims to track these efforts, congratulate their leaders, and encourage volunteers to get involved. Know of a project that should be listed on this page? And let us know! One goal of our companion Open Software. MLB: Major League Baseball.
sportsstandards.org
The Sports Standards Alliance
http://www.sportsstandards.org/ss/blogarchives
Sports Standards Alliance Looks to Expand Board (January 31, 2008 4:38pm EST). During the debut beta phase of SportsStandards.org, the Sports Standards Alliance is seeking out individuals and organizations that have played a public role in the encouragement of open sports standards and open data distribution. During February and March, a larger Board, and also a public mailing list, are expected to be announced.
sportsstandards.org
The Sports Standards Alliance
http://www.sportsstandards.org/os
Open Software: Tools to Help Parse, Normalize, Load, Query, and Present. This page aims to list all available software tools for working with sports data. Most of these tools will revolve around data formats presented elsewhere at SportsStandards.org. Know of a tool that should be listed on this page? And let us know! Free / Open Source Software. Generated SportsML from files adhering to Retrosheet format. Retrieves datafiles from retrosheet.org and pushes them through SportsML transformer.
sportsstandards.org
The Sports Standards Alliance
http://www.sportsstandards.org/sm
SportsML: Open Sports International XML Standard. SportsML is the only open, global XML standard for the interchange of sports data. The initiative is sponsored by the IPTC. International Press Telecommunications Council), a consortium of the world's major news agencies, news publishers and news industry vendors that has been setting standards for over 40 years. All standards posted at SportsStandards.org are in some way guided or influenced by SportsML.
sportsstandards.org
The Sports Standards Alliance
http://www.sportsstandards.org/ss/membership
Membership in the Sports Standards Alliance. Membership in the SSA is free and open to every active player in the sports data community. An online forum and IRC chatroom will allow members to communicate with one another. SSA Board Members have a monthly online meeting to set objectives and strategies for our initiatives.
sportsdb.org
The Sports Standards Alliance
http://www.sportsdb.org/sd/specification
Creative Commons GNU GPL. Patch Release: 10/02/2011 (Draft 27) - stats and event states table additions. Schematic Diagram of Tables (JPEG). And SQL Server Index File. What's New (in Draft 26):. Series index field added to events table. City, state, area, country fields added to locations table. Motor racing event stats table added. Phase type and sub phase type fields added to person phases table. Transition SQL from SportsDB 26 to 27: MySQL 3. Schematic Diagram of Tables (JPEG). Patch Release: 12/01/20...
sportsdb.org
The Sports Standards Alliance
http://www.sportsdb.org/sm
SportsML: Open Sports International XML Standard. SportsML is the only open, global XML standard for the interchange of sports data. The initiative is sponsored by the IPTC. International Press Telecommunications Council), a consortium of the world's major news agencies, news publishers and news industry vendors that has been setting standards for over 40 years. All standards posted at SportsStandards.org are in some way guided or influenced by SportsML.
sportsdb.org
The Sports Standards Alliance
http://www.sportsdb.org/sd/documentation
Creative Commons GNU GPL. This documentation will be expanded during Q1 2008. In the meantime, the notes below tackle some of the main design aspects of SportsDB. And the schematic database diagram and generated table- and field-level documentation found on the Specification Page. As can be seen on the Schematic Diagram. In many architectures, a SportsDB gets populated by a piece of middleware that processes a syndicated sports data file, preferably in XML, and even more preferably in SportsML. Of co...