In theory the polling app, which is a general application across a number of sites, will continue to accept ratings indefinitely. Although the rating data is not easily extractable if there was a strong enough call for it, it could be done.
I don't think there are any plans to republish the articles or gateway pages (the people, genre, star, etc index pages) in more open mark up format but there's no reason why we couldn't, if anyone wants to such a thing it could be a fun project for Mashed. I wrote both the polling app and the Films site backend so know both systems quite well. Robin Doran bbc.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Brickley Sent: 29 May 2008 16:08 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Film Reviews 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
