So as talked about it at OpenHackday, We have a new source for data, a lot of data and its increasing everyday.
At BeebCamp2, there was a question about how many BBC twitter accounts there are? No one exactly knew. Then came the follow up question, and what are they talking about? Well we tried to solve this problem by creating the BBC Twitstore. Its simply a storage of every BBC twitter user we can find and there statuses from now going forward. Currently all the data is stored in a XMLDB which you can access via its REST interface. http://mammoth.welcomebackstage.com/exist/rest/db/feeds/twitter.com Just to be clear everything is alpha but he's a couple of examples. You have to explorer it to really get a feel for what's in there, but there's some jems. http://mammoth.welcomebackstage.com/exist/rest/feeds/twitter.com/users/7400702/profile/2009-05-08/13-50-15 - This is the profile of BBC Click on the 8th May 2009 at 0350 (note followers - 555782) http://mammoth.welcomebackstage.com/exist/rest/feeds/twitter.com/users/7400702/profile/2009-05-12/18-20-16 - The same profile on 12th May 2009 at 1820 (followers - 568688) So you could imagine extracting this data over months and tracking the rises and falls of some of the users/bbc brands. If you were paying attention, you may have also noticed BBC Click only wrote one status update during the 8th May - 12th May. http://mammoth.welcomebackstage.com/exist/rest/feeds/twitter.com/users/7400702/statuses/2009-05-10/1753787505 Some of you may find this useful if your into XSL, Xquery, Xpath - http://mammoth.welcomebackstage.com/exist/devguide_rest.xml. Of course we turned off some things like PUT/DELETE/POST :) So what next? Well for this project we want to build up the index more, currently its got less that a week worth of content but almost 300 BBC users. Then we would like to enable search and more interfaces such as ATOM. We are not trying to replace search.twitter but there's certain things we think are useful to us internally and you externally. Opensoucing the code seems to make sense too. Cheers, Ian Forrester This e-mail is: []secret; []private; [x]public Senior Producer, BBC Backstage, BBC R&D Room 1044, BBC Manchester BH, Oxford Road, M60 1SJ email: [email protected] work: +44 (0)1612444063 | mob: +44 (0)7711913293 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Forrester Sent: 07 May 2009 14:56 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [backstage] Introducing ... BBC Feeds Hub There should be some more Feed type stuff coming in time for Open Hackday I believe. Cheers, Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage Room 1044, BBC Manchester BH, Oxford Road, M60 1SJ email: [email protected] work: +44 (0)1612444063 mob: +44 (0)7711913293 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anthony McKale Sent: 01 May 2009 16:19 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [backstage] Introducing ... BBC Feeds Hub Sweet... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Ogilvie Sent: 30 April 2009 19:21 To: [email protected] Subject: [backstage] Introducing ... BBC Feeds Hub "Feeds Hub is one of our new projects focusing on registering, reusing and reversioning data feeds." "It is an open-source project that aims to share its solutions publicly. BBC Audio & Music Interactive will be working with our FM&T colleagues, an independent development company called LShift, and the wider Open Source community to create this new technology." Full posting here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2009/04/introducing_bbc_feeds_hub.s html -- Alan Ogilvie [email protected] (IP) Interactive Platforms Producer Distribution Technologies | Audio & Music Interactive Room 818, BBC Henry Wood House, 3-6 Langham Place, London, W1B 3DF - 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]/ - 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]/
