Requirements- Data Access

[Josh Hambright]

I think to make this truely open that i would have to agree with the idea of having it both on the FSN site and also having a raw feed for other teams to access or giving other teams acess to the database itself for searching and that sort of thing.

Also there should be some way to have access to the data offline. IE download things out of the database and have them in a format that could forexample be read with access, excell, or filemaker giving teams without interenet access at competition access to the database, or if thye wanted to they could download it in their hotel rooms the night before and then have it ready for competition the next day.


I also still think it would be cool if we could set up little mini databases at competitions that all the teams who wanted to could tap into and that could possibly access the same info that FIRST has as far as match scores and such go, that way the information at competition could be as current and uptodate as possible.