[ddj] Accessing the Olympics related datasets/api

Thu May 3 11:58:29 UTC 2012

Hi, Matsunami san.

Thank you very much for your reply.

Sorry that I did not explain my situation properly.

I do not work in any news organisation. Even if I do, I am intending to
open up the data to anyone who wants to do some mashup site or data
visualization, so redistributing the commercially purchased feed will be
probably not allowed.

What I wanted to know is if there are any news site that provides Olympics
schedules and results in a semantic format so that it is easily consumable
by scripts.

For example, BBC has very structured web site for the schedule and results,
but I am not sure how I can access it in something like xml, json format.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/03/sport_olympic_service_update.html

The same applies to Olympic Athletes info. Yes, I can easily scrape them,
but would be nicer if I don't have to.

Thanks.

Makoto

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> Hi.
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> My name is Makoto and probably the first time to post in this mailing list.
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> I am currently trying to organise an Olympic data related hackathon and
> compiling a list of interesting data source in the following google
> spreadsheet.
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> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmVThz2NA0WRdHdRLUtDSnNGZlg1bDllNFJabUx4VHc
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> 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.
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> There seems a protocol defined at http://odf.olympictech.org/, but not
> clear whether the data is open or even how to access it.
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> Does anyone know good (real time and semantic) data api for the Olympics?
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> Thanks.
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> Makoto
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> 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.
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> 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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