Sport Ontology
The Sport Ontology is a simple lightweight ontology for publishing data about competitive sports events.
Abstract
A simple ontology for representing competitive sports events.
Introduction
The Sport Ontology is a simple lightweight ontology for publishing data about competitive sports events. The terms in this ontology allow data to be published about:
The structure of sports tournaments as a series of eventsThe competing of agents in a competitionThe type of discipline a event involvesThe award associated with the competition and how received it...etc
Whilst it originates in a specific BBC use case, the Sport Ontology should be applicable to a wide range of competitive sporting events data publishing use cases. Care has been taken to try and ensure interoperability with more general ontologies in use. In particular it draws heavily upon the events ontology.
Existing Work
During the development of the Sport Ontology existing work on modelling and publishing RDF data about events and sport was reviewed. These are summarised below:
In addition Epimorphics and Talis consulted and provided considerable assistance in design and sanity checking the model.
Ontology Diagram
Ontology Terms
Automatically generated documentation for the ontology terms.
Classes
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/Competition
Description
A competitive sporting event that usually appears as an occurrence of a recurring competition, for example the recurring English Football Premier League has a seasonal
competition occurrence during 2012/13
Superclasses
Subclasses
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/CompetitionType
Description
Enumerated competition types, for example: domestic, international.
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/CompetitiveSportingGroup
Description
The group of people that are available to compete in a particular competition. Two groups with the same members are not necessarily the same group.
Superclasses
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/CompetitiveSportingOrganisation
Description
A sporting organisation that participates in competitive sporting events. For example Manchester United or Team GB at the Olympics.
Superclasses
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/CompetitiveSportingRole
Description
General description of the participation of players, drivers, riders etc, in groups and organisations.
Superclasses
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/DivisionalCompetition
Description
A Divisional Competition is a competition that is divided into a number of competitions. London 2012 is an example of a Divisional Competition.
Superclasses
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/EventGender
Description
Enumerated type, typically Male, Female or Mixed.
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/GoverningBody
Description
The Governing Body for a sport, such as The Football Association.
Superclasses
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/GroupCompetition
Description
An organisation as a collection of leagues used to select the top N competitors from each league.
Superclasses
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/Home
Description
The home ground, stadium or location of a Competitive Sporting Organisation.
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/KnockoutCompetition
Description
A competition or stage of competition that progresses through rounds of individual fixtures whereby one team is eliminated as a result of each fixture.
Superclasses
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/LeagueCompetition
Description
A League Competition is a hierarchy of competitions or competition within such a hierarchy.
Superclasses
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/Match
Description
The smallest unit of sporting competition.
Superclasses
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/MedalCompetition
Description
A competition that results in the awarding of a medal to the winner or runner up in that competition.
Superclasses
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/MultiDisciplineCompetition
Description
A competition that incorporates a number of different sports, such as the Olympics.
Superclasses
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/MultiDisciplineRecurringCompetition
Description
A recurring sports competition the covers many sports, such as the Summer Olympics.
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/MultiRoundCompetition
Description
A Competition organised as a sequence of rounds, for example the Premier League or group stage of the World Cup.
Superclasses
Subclasses
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/MultiStageCompetition
Description
A Multi-stage Competition is a competition that is organised as a set of stages. An example is the Football World Cup.
Superclasses
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/Person
Description
An athlete or other person with typically a participating role in a CompetitiveSportingOrganisation.
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/RecurringCompetition
Description
A recurring sports competition such as the Rugby Super League.
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/Round
Description
A round is one or more competitions that is part of a Multi-Round Competition. Examples include the first round of Wimbledon and the final round of the FA Cup.
Superclasses
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/RoundType
Description
Enumerated round types, for example: preliminary, qualifying or final.
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/Session
Description
A sub-division of a competition, that must be broken up due to the duration of that competition, occurring for example in snooker or cricket.
Superclasses
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/SportingOrganisation
Description
An organisation involved in Sport, for example a Football team or the UK Government Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Superclasses
Subclasses
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/SportsDiscipline
Description
The type of discipline a sporting event involves.
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/UnitCompetition
Description
A unit competition is the unit of competition defined by a competition discipline rules. Examples include a 100m race or Football match.
Superclasses
Subclasses
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/Venue
Description
The location of a sporting event. May be a stadium, track, lake etc.
Properties
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/awayCompetitor
Description
Relates a match to one competitor, by definition or designation not the home competitor.
Domain
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/competesIn
Description
Relates a competitor, team or other agent to a competition.
Superproperties
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/competitionType
Description
Relates something, typically a competition, to an enumerated competition type.
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/discipline
Description
Relates something to a sporting discipline, for example a person to athletics.
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/eventGender
Description
Relates a competition to a gender class instance.
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/firstRound
Description
Relates a multi-round competition to the first round in that competition.
Superproperties
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/firstSession
Description
Relates a competition to the first session of a series of sessions.
Superproperties
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/firstStage
Description
Relates a multi-stage competition to its first stage in that competition.
Superproperties
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/firstUnitCompetition
Description
Relates a competition to its first unit competition.
Superproperties
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/hasCompetedFor
Description
Associates an agent with sporting organisations non-temporally.
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/hasCompetitor
Description
Relates a competition to a competitor in that competition.
Subproperty
Domain
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/hasDivision
Description
Relates a divisional competition to a division in that competition.
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/hasGroup
Description
Relates a league competition to a corresponding group competition.
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/hasHome
Description
Relates a Competitive Sporting Organisation to its home ground, stadium or location.
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/hasMatch
Description
Relates a round to a match.
Superproperties
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/hasRound
Description
Relates a multi-round competition to a round in that competition.
Subproperty
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/hasSession
Description
Relates a competition to a session within that competition.
Subproperty
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/hasStage
Description
Relates a multi-stage competition to a stage that it contains.
Subproperty
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/hasUnitCompetition
Description
Relates a round to a unit competition in that round.
Subproperty
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/homeCompetitor
Description
Relates a match to one competitor, by definition or designation not the away competitor.
Superproperties
Domain
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/isCompetitiveSportingOrganisationOf
Description
Relates a competitive sporting group to a competitive sporting organisation.
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/isGroupOf
Description
Relates a group competition to its corresponding League competition.
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/isMatchOf
Description
Relates a match to a round.
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/isRoundOf
Description
Relates a round to its corresponding multi-round competition.
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/isSessionOf
Description
Relates a session to a competition.
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/isStageOf
Description
Relates a stage to a multi-stage competition.
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/lastRound
Description
Relates a multi-round competition to the last round in that competition.
Superproperties
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/lastSession
Description
Relates a competition to the last session of a series of sessions.
Superproperties
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/lastStage
Description
Relates a stage in a multi-stage competition to its last stage.
Superproperties
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/lastUnitCompetition
Description
Relates a competition to its last unit competition.
Superproperties
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/nextRound
Description
Relates a round in a multi-round competition to its next round.
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/nextSession
Description
Relates a session to its next session.
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/nextStage
Description
Relates a stage in a multi-stage competition to its next stage.
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/nextUnitCompetition
Description
Relates a unit competition to its next unit competition.
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/prevRound
Description
Relates a round in a multi-round competition to its previous round.
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/prevSession
Description
Relates a session to its previous session.
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/prevStage
Description
Relates a stage in a multi-stage competition to its previous stage.
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/prevUnitCompetition
Description
Relates a multi-round competition to its previous unit competition.
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/promotesTo
Description
Relates a competition to the next competition in a heirarchy that teams are promoted to. For example the nPower Championship promotes to the Premier League.
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/recurringCompetition
Description
Relates a competition to the recurring instance of that competition, for example the 2012/13 Premier League to the Premier League.
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/relegatesTo
Description
Relates a competition to the previous competition in a heirarchy that teams are relegated to. For example the Premier League relegates to the nPower Championship.
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/roundNumber
Description
Indicates the sequential number of a round.
Domain
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/roundType
Description
Relates a round to an enumerated round type.
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/subDiscipline
Description
Relates a discipline with a child discipline, for example gymnastics with rhythmic gymnastics.
Domain
Range
URI
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/sport/subDisciplineOf
Description
Relates a discipline with a parent discipline, for example rhythmic gymnastics with gymnastics.
Domain
Range