[ddj] Accessing the Olympics related datasets/api

Innes innes at quantumdata.co.nz
Fri May 4 21:18:23 UTC 2012 

Hi Makato,

I'd like to follow your progress on this project and offer some help if I can. I've a long held interest in mashups and have done some work in building structured data feeds from disparate data sources in the past. The Olympics would be a great opportunity to create some consumable data feeds.

If you would like some help I would be interested.

Kind regards,
Innes

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On 3/05/2012, at 11:58 PM, Makoto Inoue <inouemak at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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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> From: Makoto Inoue <inouemak at googlemail.com>
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> 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
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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.
> 
> 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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> Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 07:33:24 +0900
> From: Isao Matsunami <isao_ma at on.rim.or.jp>
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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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