Introducing IPTC Sport Schema 1.0: A New Standard for Sports Data

Behold the wonder of the IPTC Sport Schema 1.0!

The first new IPTC standard to be released in more than 10 years, IPTC Sport Schema is a comprehensive model for the storage, transmission and querying of sports data. It has been tested on real-world use cases that are common in any newsroom or sports organisation. Being RDF-based, IPTC Sport Schema can be rendered in XML, JSON and the simple Turtle format, and can be converted easily between all three formats using free tools such as Apache Jena. “Those familiar with SportsML or SportsJS should recognise the basic components of Sport Schema,” says [Paul] Kelly, “both in the ontology and in the sports vocabularies introduced with SportsML 3.0, which were designed specifically with semantic technologies in mind.”