On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I was hoping to get a brainstorm of ideas for APIs and Feeds you would love > to play with in the near future, while focusing on Vision/TV > > I got most of the obvious stuff like, > > - A 31 day schedule in XML > - TV schedules as a API with past and future ability > - Direct links to iplayer programmes > - XML/RSS/ATOM/JSON of upcoming iplayer programmes > - XML/RSS/ATOM/JSON of programmes about to drop off iplayer > - Links between programmes and their programme catalogue entry > - The Programme Catalogue! :)
It'd be nice if the BBC could publish RDF of their whole programme catalogue and add it to the already growing sphere of Linked Open Data: http://esw.w3.org/topic/SweoIG/TaskForces/CommunityProjects/LinkingOpenData Hook the programmes in with parts of the diagram on the page - eg: - for all programmes, link them to the DBPedia resource for that programme if it exists on Wikipedia - for actors and presenters, link them to their DBPedia resource - for music programmes, link bands and songs in - for news and factual programmes, link them to online stories that cover the same story - for review programmes (like Newsnight Review), link in the relevant discussed books/authors/films/plays etc. - for things which happen in a particular place, link them into Geonames - for dramatic re-enactments, link them to what they were re-enacting (historical events, books, plays etc.) - in political coverage, link through to details about the relevant politicians and legislation Less hacking RSS and Atom to do things for which they were not intended (they are feed formats, not universal containers). -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ - 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]/
