Just a reminder that the top of the pops data is available under creative commons and has an xml representation (that could probably do with some work) and has musicbrainz ids and musicbrainz has been uploaded to freebase in it's entirety
Unfortuntely it's under an attribution licence but like tom says about dr who, totp is "clearly [a] BBC programme[s], I'm not sure it's the end of the world..." It's something i've been meaning to do for weeks but keep getting bored reading the api docs. IF you wanna give it a go and need anything more from me shout... http://bbc-hackday.dyndns.org:2821/ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Tom Loosemore Sent: Mon 7/9/2007 10:48 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Re: Uploading the BBC programme catalogue to freebase (was RE: [backstage] Programme Catalogue vs. Freebase (was: BBC Programme Catalogue -any APIs yet?)) On 09/07/07, Oliver Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 21:30 +0100, Brendan Quinn wrote: > > I was considering entering a hack for Hack Day around that very thing. > > But then they went and made me one of the judges ;-) > > > > Wanna help? A simple set of scripts that scrape the archive (er I mean > > "call that big RESTful API") and post entries/updates to the freebase > > sandbox server would be an interesting experiment. > > I've not yet (bulk) posted data on Freebase - I'll take a look at this > when I'm more au fait with it. > > > compare > > http://www.freebase.com/view/?id=%239202a8c04000641f8000000000012406 > > with > > http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/series/DOCTOR+WHO > > ! > > Freebase is still in alpha as far as I know - those who can't see the > first link can see a screenshot at: > http://cornflakes.imen.org.uk/~oli/DrWho.png > > Those who are particularly interested can feel free to ask me for one of > my remaining 4 invites - and I imagine Brendan has some too. > > > There may be some rights issues around what would basically amount to > > opening up the programme catalogue under the creative commons > > attribution license, where the attribution wouldn't go to the BBC but to > > Freebase... > > Well, the RDF for the catalogue links to > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/05/api_licence.html: > > "The BBC grants to You a ... non-sublicensable right to copy..." > > Further: > > d. not publish, distribute or otherwise make the APIs available, > (including in any Work You create), in a way that would enable other > people to download or use the APIs other than as set out in this > Licence. standard backstage API licence - it was the only one lying around at the time... (nov 2005) > I don't see any legal way that we can export the data to Freebase and > relicense it as CC-BY. yeah... the attribution back to BBC kinda matters... though given the programmes are clearly BBC programmes, I'm not sure it's the end of the world... > Would you be able to get the appropriate BBC people to get this done? I'll do a bit of lobbying... - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
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