The Nahouw contains a fast amount of information about fencing tournaments, events, tournament results, photos, ranking lists and tournament entries. On this web site you can learn how to incorporate information from the Nahouw on your web site using so called "web services". Using the web services of the Nahouw information on your web site will always be up to date without any effort.

How does it work and and what are web services?

We will not give a detailed introduction about web services here. A web service is a well known and standardized technique for transferring information from one system (the Nahouw) to another system (your web site).

If you don't know anything about (web) technology don't worry. Still, you can read on this page which information from the Nahouw you can put easily on our web site. Ask your webmaster for more information.

Which information can I put on my web site?

Currently, web services for the following information are available:

• Tournament calendars. Using the web services of the Nahouw you can create easily tournament calendars on you web site. You create a selection from the tournaments on the Nahouw using the one the following selection criteria:
  • You can select all tournaments from a particular country.
  • You can select all tournaments from a particular circuit.
  • You can select tournaments based on weapon, age, gender, grade, country, and circuit using a search agent.
  • You can select manually tournaments using a so-called private circuit. For example, this is an ideal solution if you need to put on you web site a list of tournaments selected by the trainer of your club for epee cadet fencers.

• Photos and thumbnails of photos. Using the web services of the Nahouw you can put in many ways a selection of the photos available on the Nahouw on your web site. You can create the following selections:
  
  • You can select photos from a certain photographer.
  • You can select photos taken at tournaments that are part a certain circuit.
  •  Photos of a certain fencer.

• Ranking lists, results.
  • Currently under construction.

Examples

You can find numerous examples here.

Cost

The web services of the Nahouw are free services of the Nahouw for non-commercial web sites.

Information and Support

If you need more information about the Nahouw web services you can direct them to the webmaster of Nahouw.

Professional support for integrating information from the Nahouw in your web site is available from Set Based IT Consultancy.