Ian Forrester 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 reference page or service for all programmes (/programmes in XML) > - keywords > > > > > > > > > > > Anything more?
I'm not sure of the scope of the above points... Given concepts like crossover and product placement it may be worth looking at in-program timing of generic 'objects'. eg: 25:00-26:23 Music: Band:Ah-ha Track:Take On Me Album:... 25:00-26:23 Actor: Bruce Lee Character: Benny 25:00-26:23 Product: Coca Cola 25:00-26:23 Actual Location : Slough GPS-coords:39729358734652 25:00-26:23 Fictional Location : Monaco for *that* famous scene :) This does not need to be commercial - I could see it being used to identify concepts in educational material too. Who does this? Well, collaborative approaches could be used (FreeDB/CDDB worked), some companies would provide product/media info (would need guidelines), some programme makers would find it added value (education) - heck maybe an actor's agent would provide the data as part of the service (or the actor themselves if they were on the 'bronze' package ;) ) Clearly this works when it's about providing meta-information rather than links to a page. Those come from the apps using the meta-data. Tied to this (and many of the other points raised) would be a UUID system for uniquely identifying objects, resolving duplicates and possibly establishing relationships. Clearly one or two minor issues to resolve but... David - 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]/
