Mmmm, I can't help but feel the volume of information is over the top. I've even thought it'd be worth installing a triple store and using that to do some knowledge "stuff".
With my current PC-based TV guide about to expire I was thinking about replacing that using the BBCs feeds but the Radio Time's data would make this far far simpler ... What are others using the data for? On 01/08/05, Andrew McParland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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]/ > -- 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. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
