iptc update 2006 03 28

SportsML www.SportsML.org: 

SportsML www.SportsML.org Alan Karben XML Team Solutions Vancouver, Canada / March 28, 2006

Agenda: 

Agenda SportsML 1.7: Ready for Vote SportsML andamp; The Winter Olympics SportsML andamp; Major League Baseball SportsML within NAR Also known as… NewsML-Sports? NewsML/Sports? NewsML+Sports? SportsML 1.8: What’s On Tap

SportsML 1.7: 

SportsML 1.7 http://www.sportsml.org/dev/ http://www.sportsml.org/IPTC/SportsML/1.7/documentation/1.7-changes.html http://www.sportsml.org/dev/sportsml-1.7-distribution.zip

SportsML 1.7 Additions: 

SportsML 1.7 Additions Technical Improvements andamp; Corrections to DTD and Schema All simpleTypes now properly referenced Schema targetNamespace andamp; similar attributes all appropriately used Fixed illegal content-model ambiguity action-american-football-score?, action-american-football-score? is now action-american-football-score* in DTD. In Schema, it’s: minOccurs='0' maxOccurs='2' Documentation filled-in to greater extent

SportsML 1.7 Additions: 

SportsML 1.7 Additions Samples and DTD and Schema now all validate Including SportsML file that contains embedded NITF article andlt;?xml version='1.0'?andgt; andlt;!DOCTYPE sports-content SYSTEM '../sportsml-core.dtd'andgt; andlt;sports-contentandgt; ... or: andlt;?xml version='1.0'?andgt; andlt;sports-content xmlns='http://www.sportsml.org/schema/' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xsi:schemaLocation='http://www.sportsml.org/schema/ ../sportsml.xsd' andgt; ...

SportsML 1.7 Additions: 

SportsML 1.7 Additions Most DTD/Schema additions were the result of postings to SportsML Yahoo!Group, or of personally addressed emails Core Additions Added abbreviation attribute to name element Added to team-stats element: time-played-total attribute (already present in player-stats) Added to associate-stats element: points attribute Allowed standing element to be as an optional child of tournament-division

Ice Hockey Additions: 

Ice Hockey Additions Add to stats-ice-hockey-offensive element: goals-shootout-attempts Added to andlt;stats-ice-hockey-defensiveandgt;: goals-shootout-allowed shots-shootout-allowed Added to andlt;action-ice-hockey-score-attemptandgt; shootout-shot-order

Baseball Additions: 

Baseball Additions Added to andlt;stats-baseball-offensiveandgt;: games-played attribute Added to andlt;stats-baseball-pitchingandgt;: batters-total-against sacrifice-bunts-allowed sacrifice-hits-allowed Interferences Other specific-sport additions recounted on change-list

SportsML 1.7 Action Items: 

SportsML 1.7 Action Items Motion to Vote Vote here in committee Vote in Standards Committee Authoring of website-friendly 'What’s New in 1.7' copy, and other web page adjustments Go-Live Highlights for any Press Release: Now officially schema-compatible Greater depth of statistical coverage, based on 'proven in the field' feedback from user base

SportsML & Olympics: 

SportsML andamp; Olympics Like with Athens: XML Team hired by AP to process official Olympics 'WNPA' feed Produced html web-pages that were integrated into the websites of hundreds of U.S. newspapers WNPA-to-WnpaML-to-SportsML-to-Database Database Queries generated new SportsML Then formatted into HTML All using XSLT (except WNPA-to-WnpaML) Core SportsML elements and attributes used almost exclusively Few 'sport-specific stats' sent through over WNPA feed

SportsML & MLB: 

SportsML andamp; MLB Programmers at various Major League Baseball clubs recently formed 'interest group' to grapple with common data-processing issues Taken a keen interest in SportsML, XTOSS Database, and RoSIN (play-by-play syntax) http://www.xmlteam.com/baseball Actively programming code to transform feeds and use these technologies Formed the open 'baseball-os' Yahoo!Group to discuss baseball standards http://www.mlb.com http://www.japanesebaseball.com

SportsML within NAR: 

SportsML within NAR SportsML: The NewsML/Sports Component? Walk-through example presented in Milan resulted in some 'NewsML 2' improvements Currently re-doing those document instances, and will post on SportsML.org (and NewsML.org?) Worthy of mention in Press Release? 'Bringing new Packaging and Revision-Control Management to SportsML'?

SportsML 1.8?: 

SportsML 1.8? Johan: Creating new Curling plug-in Volunteers for Australian Rules Football plug-in http://www.bigfooty.com – A Top-3 visited Football site Fill in more specific tennis statistics and actions Result of XML Team’s working with The Tennis Channel’s online division Still need to pour through schema and make datatypes more specific Change 'assists' datatype from string to integer, for example More in-depth NAR/NewsML2 Cooperation

Next Steps: 

Next Steps Work to post SportsML 1.7 Work on SportsML 1.8 Work with NAR/NewsML 2 Next meeting… in Austria