[ddj] Accessing the Olympics related datasets/api

Wed May 2 22:33:24 UTC 2012

Olympics data is distributed by WNPA. I think lots of media people are
working on that format currently.
You should ask your company whether it is subscribed or not.

2012/5/3 Makoto Inoue <inouemak at googlemail.com>:
> Hi.
>
> My name is Makoto and probably the first time to post in this mailing list.
>
> I am currently trying to organise an Olympic data related hackathon and
> compiling a list of interesting data source in the following google
> spreadsheet.
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmVThz2NA0WRdHdRLUtDSnNGZlg1bDllNFJabUx4VHc
>
> NOTE: Please feel free to send a permission request, if you would like to
> contribute to update the list.
>
> One thing I am struggling to find is how I can get the real time game result
> (apart from scraping from news site, etc) and full list of Olympic athletes
> names and details.
>
> There seems a protocol defined at http://odf.olympictech.org/, but not clear
> whether the data is open or even how to access it.
>
> Does anyone know good (real time and semantic) data api for the Olympics?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Makoto
>
>
>
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