[OKFN - Austria] Any Open Data Sets for the (Football) Euro Cup (in France 2016)?

Mi Mai 18 18:55:06 UTC 2016

A great use use for open data and a great potential dataset for www.opendataportal.at

We just need someone to talk to FIFA about open data :-)

cheers,
Bernhard

----- Am 16. Mai 2016 um 10:25 schrieb Gerald Bauer gerald.bauer at gmail.com:

> Hello,
>   Thanks for your invitation, encouragement and kind words.
> 
>   Unless a miracle happens there's no open football data anywhere.
> Most people (>95%+) think that if it is published online in Kleine
> Zeitung, Österreich, Die Krone, etc. it's open data ;-) That's the
> state of the world.
> 
>   Anyways, the  best (open) football source is (surprise!) Wikipedia.
> It's just text [1] - sometimes semi-structured but at least it's a
> world wonder and a great start and inspiration.
> 
>  Joe Kampschmidt has put together a more extensive list about
> football data [2] and I have a little list called Awesome Football
> (Data) [3].
> 
>   It's kind of funny - for example - how the ORF promotes a minimum
> three hours of live coverage for the Euro 2016 every day as do others
> but it's impossible to get a license-free (or open data-licensed
> structured) match schedule (just 51 matches!) that an individual can
> put together in about an hour. Let's thank the sponsors Coca Cola and
> McDonald's at least for the free one-page matchday PDF-download
> (booklet).
> 
>   25 days to kick off!
> 
>   Cheers.
> 
> PS: What's Open Data?  A great site and definition by OKFN [4]
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2016
> [2] http://www.jokecamp.com/blog/guide-to-football-and-soccer-data-and-apis
> [3] https://github.com/planetopendata/awesome-football
> [4] http://opendefinition.org
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