Hi Ben, What sort of documentation would you like? A few pointers to some existing information below:
+ Our LGPL'ed Java TV-Anytime API: http://www.bbc.co.uk/opensource/projects/tv_anytime_api/ contains a useful paper detailing the API which gives a good idea of what's in TV-Anytime, also available from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/whp-pdf-files/WHP060.pdf + Plenary documents of the TV-Anytime Forum (including drafts of the specifications): ftp://tva:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Plenary/0-Plenary.html + Including a draft of the current ETSI version of the Metadata specification (includes XML Schema): ftp://tva:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Plenary/TV288r1.zip + And a Systems specification that includes some more examples and philosophy of use: ftp://tva:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Plenary/TV302r1.zip + Note that the ETSI versions are the definitive versions of the specifications, freely downloadable with registration from www.etsi.org + A short, high-level introductory overview: "TV-Anytime - using all that extra data": http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/whp-pdf-files/WHP050.pdf + An overview of the structure of the specifications: "TV-Anytime Phase 1 - a decisive milestone in open standards for Personal Video Recorders": http://www.ebu.ch/trev_295-evain.pdf Some of the higher level documents are useful for getting accross the "ah, it's not just an EPG then" idea and the use of identifiers (CRIDs), grouping, etc. I hope that helps a bit. But please do let us know what more specific info would help you. Cheers, Andrew Andrew McParland | Phone: +44 (0) 1737 839590 BBC Research & Development | Fax: +44 (0) 1737 839665 Kingswood Warren, Tadworth | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Surrey, KT20 6NP, UK | Web: http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 03:23:00PM +0100, Ben O'Neill wrote: > > I like the data and plan on using it quite soon (I've only had brief > looks so far) but I'd like to see better documentation. Being gzipped > isn't a problem for me. > > On 19/07/05, Ben Metcalfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello folks > > > > As you will know, we released the TV Anytime feeds a couple of weeks > > back (In case anyone hasn't seen them yet, they live here: > > http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/7DayListingData) > > > > We're keen to hear your feedback about the feeds, in particular if there > > is anything we can do to help make them easier for you to integrate into > > your prototypes. > > > > Please let us know your thoughts and views generally, but questions we > > have been thinking about include: > > > > * Could we package them differently (ie not gzip archive)? > > * Do we need to make better documentation available? > > * Do you want a perl/php API to access the data more easily? > > > > Please let me know - either via this list or directly to me: backstage > > (at) bbc.co.uk. > > > > > > Thanks folks > > Ben + backstage.bbc.co.uk team. > > > > > > - > > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > > > > > -- > Ben O'Neill > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. - 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/[email protected]/
