Re: [backstage] BBC Programme Catalogue

[Tony Hirst]

Hi - I was having a quick look at the Programme Catalogue (amazing what the OU has put out over the years - http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/006117.html) and a couple of things came to mind:  - is there an API/any way of making a query to the catalogue that will return an XML response?  - are you going to offer support for sparql (the reason i ask is that's the way the Talis/Silkworm/library webservice (http://directory.talis.com/ui/) API looks like it's going - http://api.talis.com/1/dir/sparql) - is the catalgoue reference number coding scheme hackable/defined according to some convention? If so, is the convention published anywhere? - is it possible to make compound(?) queries on the catalogue - e.g. to search for series "Dr WHo" AND contributor(?) Tom Baker thanks tony ----------------------------------------------------------- Tony Hirst mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage: http://robofesta.open.ac.uk/tony blog: http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/blog/ Dept. of ICT, Faculty of Technology Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK Tel: +44 (0)19086 52789, m./SMS 07709 766223