Linked Soccer Data.
Tanja Bergmann, Stefan Bunk, Johannes Eschrig, Christian Hentschel, Magnus Knuth, Harald Sack, Ricarda Schüler · 2013
The sport domain is strongly under-represented in the Linked Open Data Cloud, whereas sport competition results can be linked to already existing entities, such as events, teams, players, and more. The provision of Linked Data about sporting results enables extensive statistics, while connections to further datasets allow enhanced and sophisticated analyses. Moreover, providing sports data as Linked Open Data may promote new applications, which are currently impossible due to the locked nature of today’s proprietary sports databases. We present a dataset containing information about soccer matches, teams, players and so forth crawled from from heterogeneous sources and linked to related entities from the LOD cloud. To enable exploration and to illustrate the capabilities of the dataset a web interface is introduced providing a structured overview and extensive statistics.