They should link it to an audio-indexed version of the Kermode film rants too...
On 5/29/08, Dan Brickley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Bowden wrote: >>> I see the film reviews are nolonger being updated on the BBC >>> site. Does anyone know why and will this mean that the film >>> reviews xml feeds will no longer be updated. >> >> The Movies site (and it's associated section on BBCi) formally closed on >> 6 May 2008 - they've left the archive online, however there won't be any >> new reviews. As such, the feeds won't get updated. > > The ratings DB at http://www.bbc.co.uk/movies/ (assume this is the site > you're talking about) still seems open for business. I voted on a couple > of movies and it increased the counter, eg. 'Average rating: 4 from 701 > votes' in > http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/03/28/panic_room_2002_review.shtml# > > Will the system carry on accepting ratings indefinitely? Is there any > way to get a movie ratings data dump out of /cgi-perl/polling/poll.pl ? > > Seems like a nice collection of data, even if it won't be updated. > > There are people pages too, even enough to play the 6 degrees of Kevin > Bacon game, albeit on a dataset much smaller than IMDB: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/gateways/star/baconkevin/ > > If http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/catalogue_offline.shtml were back > online, it might be fun to match up the identifiers to find other > appearances of the same actors elsewhere in BBCland... > > cheers, > > Dan > > -- > http://danbri.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]/ > - 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]/

