iptc update 2007 05 29

SportsML www.SportsML.org

(presentation available at http://www.sportsml.org/dev)

Alan KarbenXML Team SolutionsTokyo / May 27, 2007

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Agenda

• Welcome to our Guest

• SportsML 2.0: – Sports-Specific Improvements– Option to Use G2 Packaging

• Next Steps

• Open Forum


Welcome: Michael Westbay

• Owner of http://www.japanesebaseball.com• First (?) website to cover Japanese Baseball

– Started in 1995 as “Japan Pro Yakyu this Week”

• Frequent contributor to SportsML community


Sports-Specific Improvements

• Baseball play expansion

• American-Football position expansion

• Highly specific datatypes

• Additional stats absent from SportsML 1.8

• Other Potential Additions– Rugby Plug-In?– Improved / Streamlined / Internationalized

wagering line support?


<action-baseball-play>

1. Expand play-type to include wider variety of plays (see spreadsheet)

2. Expand hit-type to better modify play-types that are hits

3. Expand out-type to better modify play-types that are outs

4. Add new modifying attributes:• interference-type• base-stolen


<action-baseball-play>

Guiding Principle:

Enable SportsML attributes to describe play for top-level play events that are worthy of searching (via XQuery or SQL)

The RoSIN "play notation" is recordable to fully describe the play (www.rosin.org)


American-Football Positions

• Allow for more specific positions(see spreadsheet)

• In General, allow for either Generic or Specific positions

• What to do when player takes multiple positions over the course of an event?– Comma-separated values?


Highly Specific Datatypes

• Most statistical datatypes are currently specified as “cdata” – Hadn’t gotten around to making them more specific

• Proposal made for more specific baseball datatypes– (see spreadsheet)

• Complete this effort for stats for our other sports, and for pieces of Core Schemae.g., Core <player-stats> has these attributes:– time-played-event (ISO time duration)– time-played-total (ISO time duration)– time-played-event-average (ISO time duration)– events-played (integer)– events-started (integer)


Additional Absent Stats

• Add stolen-bases-attempted attribute to <stats-baseball-offensive>

• Add rebounds-opponent-total attribute to <stats-basketball-rebounding>

• Add double-doubles attribute to <stats-basketball-offensive>


Rugby Plug-In

• Initial Inventory of Stats (see spreadsheet)

• Union vs. League

Question: Can both styles of play be covered by same Plug-In (like with American and Canadian football)?

Answer: Would be nice.


Better Wagering Structures

• Good banter on the Yahoo!Group about posting proposals that broaden our wagering-stats coverage to be applicable to more sports in more countries

• Nothing (yet) posted following initial surge in discussion


SportsML 2.0 / G2: Positioning

• G2 Compatibility for SportsML 2.0: Optional• Review: Why G2? Publisher can take

advantage of:– Additional packaging functionality– Additional rights-management functionality– Cleaner metadata structures, improved

versioning– Potential for content-neutral platforms for

permissioning and distribution of content


SportsML 2.0 / G2: Positioning

• Client can take advantage of:– Common metadata model, to determine

document routing and processing– Potential for content-neutral platforms for

receiving and processing/integrating content


SportsML 1.8 to SportsML G2

• XSL file can do conversion – (only ~400 lines of XSL code -- including

comments)• 1.8 metadata properties migrate to newsItem

metadata header• Inline conversions:

• date format• qcodes for controlled codes• name/@full• split out SportsML and Nitf content


Sample SportsML 2.0

• Samples validate against latest draft (0.16) except for:– Relationships (broader, narrower, related,

sameAs): need to see samples– Contenttype (mimetype?): Uncertain how to

express.• contenttype="application/sportsml+xml”• contenttype="application/nitf+xml”• Why is contenttype not camel-case?


Hybrid Documents

• Package of SportsML and NITF

• Topic in Cairo– Contains complementary inline:

• SportsML stats which supplement an NITF story

– Includes two inlineXML

• See sample files at sportsml.org/dev


SportsML “fixture” Resolution

• Finally resolved sing instanceOf and memberOf (says Paul: “Hooray!”):

<itemMeta><instanceOf qcode="fixture:pre-event-coverage">

<name>Game Preview</name>

• Agreed?


SportsML “fixture” (cont’d.)

• Also:

<contentMeta><genre type="sml-genre:docClass"

qcode="docClass:event-summary"><narrower qcode="fixture:pre-event-coverage"/>

<genre type="sml-genre:fixture" qcode="fixture:pre-event-coverage"><broader qcode="docClass:event-summary"/>

• Dit Paul: “D’accord?”


More Relationships

<subject type="subj:person" qcode="person:l.mlb.com-p.123"><name>Freddy Garcia</name>

<sameAs qcode="fssID:45680"/>

</subject>

• Dit Paul: “C’est bon ou mal?”


sports-metadata

• SportsML 1.8:<sports-metadata>

<sports-content-codes><sports-content-code code-type="team" code-key="l.mlb.com-t.19" code-name="Philadelphia Phillies"/>

• Becomes SportsML 2.0 / G2:<contentMeta><subject type="subj:team"

qcode="team:l.mlb.com-t.19"><name>Philadelphia Phillies</name>


Other Changes

• event-key=“l.mlb.com-2007-e. 19358” – Becomes:

event-key=“event:l.mlb.com-2007-e.19358”– Also: team, player, fixture and all other

controlled keys

• start-date-time=“20070528T190500-0400” – Becomes:

start-date-time=“2007-05-28T19:05:00-04:00”


Next Steps• Finalize Sports-specific improvements

• Validate G2 samples per ratified (?) NAR spec

• Fully document the recommended SportsML-within-G2 approach– Release SportsML 1.8-to-2.0/G2 XSL

• TAG urls? (Misha)

• Prepare SportsML 2.0 for vote

• Next meeting… in Prague in September


Open Forum

• Questions / Comments

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