one for the mix - just imagine of the bbc back catalogue was opened
upyou could relive all sorts of events as if in real time ;-)
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=television_research_news_310805
Earlier this year a new database was released which will change this
situation for independent
That would be really interesting... except you seem to need an academic
logon in order to access it:
"TVTiP is only available to bona fide students, researchers and teachers in
further and higher education in the United Kingdom and to BUFVC members."
Unless I'm missing something, the project was
Title: backstage.bbc.co.uk TV Schedule competition
Dear all,
I'm writing to let you know that the inaugural backstage.bbc.co.uk competition hasn’t gone as well as I had hoped. In fact, at the time of sending this we haven’t received any entries at all.
backstage.bbc.co.uk is very much abo
Title: backstage.bbc.co.uk TV Schedule competition
Hi,
Point 1 is probably most pertinent for me! I'd have
preferred a simple XML list like:
How to start your own
country
2130
2200
30
must like bleb.org :-)
Also - it's not the most enticing theme. TV schedules have
been done befor
Ben
The intention was good! I hope that you will persist in looking for ways to
encourage independent developers to make use of the TV-Anytime data.
My guess is that people need more time to come up with interesting
applications.
- there's quite a steep learning curve for TV-A newcomers.
- Co
Hi Ben,
Ben Metcalfe wrote:
Moving forward, I’ve been trying to think about why this has happened –
I'm sorry to hear that there haven't been any submissions -- I was
really looking forward to see what people would come up with. As far as
we (the Expway EPG/ESG team) are concerned it was sim
Except that with the Java API, the TV-Anytime files are fairly easy to
parse...
Perhaps they'll be a flood of entries next week?
David Tattersall wrote:
Hi,
Point 1 is probably most pertinent for me! I'd have preferred a simple
XML list like:
How to start your own country
2130
2200
30
(Note to self: enter competition.)
In my case, the problem is three-fold:
* The TV schedule data we provided over-complicated and in an alien
format that was difficult to parse,
That's the first problem. Parsing through two files, one containing
program descriptions and the other containing
Personally I was quite interested in the competition, however holidays
and chaos at work have meant no time to come up with an idea let alone
work on it.
Tim.
On 9/1/05, Ben Metcalfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> I'm writing to let you know that the inaugural back
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 02:57:34PM +0100, David Tattersall wrote:
>
>Also - it's not the most enticing theme. TV schedules have been done
>before really. If you perhaps gave a goal - for example a project that
>gradually learns what TV somebody likes and suggests programmes that
>a
I think as is the case with many people it all comes down to time unfortunately.As someone else mentioned, I assumed you would be inundated with really cool stuff and that my offering of a couple of weekends here and there just wouldn't be up to scratch. I guess I'll have to rethink.I also agree w
Ben,
I'm concerned at the hype around the use and provision of text, and
the failure to engage users of other media, by releasing under
published copyright (commons type) restrictions as advertised by the
BBC. Even with text the BBC seemed to be trying to be pretty
restrictive on copyrigh
I was hoping to enter; indeed, I got about 1/3 of the way through my project but
sheer lack of time and expertise has got in the way.
The main problem was parsing the XML. I'd developed the beginnings of the
interface, and I was about to approach parsing the XML. Unfortunately, I ended
up writing
On 01/09/05, Ben Metcalfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * The TV schedule data we provided over-complicated and in an alien format
> that was difficult to parse,
This was the clincher for me I'm afraid.
I'm great at coming up with ideas, but am not the world's best coder.
And when I do hack so
>>one for the mix - just imagine of the bbc back catalogue was opened
>>upyou could relive all sorts of events as if in real time ;-)
>>http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=television_research_news_310805
Thanks for that Tony.. I've had a couple of chats recently with the
Radio Times team ab
On 9/1/05, Jonathan Chetwynd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I believe the TV schedule concept isn't that exciting, but just mightbe with access to sound, picture and motion files, perhaps an onlinemixing console? there are excellent versions online that work withfixed files jellify BBC content
XML
It does seem like a lot of people
have had a lack of time.
Personally I didn't find it too hard to parse the listings, although it
could have been easier with a simpler format. I think I have made it
clear that developing something around a BBC led theme isn't really a
problem for me :)
I
I was hoping to get something in but other stuff got in the ways and
I'm still not a very good coder. TV-Anytime is just to difficult for
me to parse, I really needed simple RSS style feeds or an easy-to-use
parser.
On 01/09/05, Steve Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 01/09/05, Ben Metca
I'm writing to let you know that the inaugural backstage.bbc.co.uk
competition hasn’t gone as well as I had hoped. In fact, at the time of
sending this we haven’t received any entries at all.
Ouch! Much as others have said, time is a factor. A number of the
forums/websites that I use tend
- Original Message -
From: "Ben Metcalfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sorry bit of a long reply.
* The idea of developing around a BBC-led theme, even for a prize, isn't
an approach that is of interest to the backstage.bbc.co.uk community.
I quite liked the idea, although it did feel a
I'd like to just add another voice to the call for XML feeds. It's much
easier to parse with the abundance of libraries. Also, off-topic, but any
chance of the Weather feed (XML aussi) being added? The GNOME-UK team
would like to use it.
Stephen
Ben Metcalfe said:
> * The TV schedule data we prov
Title: Message
For my part,
all the interesting things I came up with were very AI related, which meant they
were really just ways of procrastinating from working on my dissertation and
commercial-type stuff, so I couldn't legitimately justify spending the time on
it. I think in general this
the problem for me was that the data is overly complex.
On 01/09/05, Luke Dicken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > For my part, all the
interesting things I came up with were very AI related,> which meant they were
really just ways of procrastinating from working on my> dissertation and
commercia
Following on from feedback received so far (on list and off list), I've
got some updates for you all...
**Timing**
Holidays, enjoying the sun, etc -- it sounds like many of you have just
not had an opportunity to get round to working on your ideas. Therefore
we are going to extend the competitio
yeah i would probably have got off my arse and learned what a crid wasif the
prize had been a top of the line g4 with cinema display.
On 02/09/05, Luke Dicken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > As far as the prize
goes, a rackable> server again limits your target audience - perhaps something
more ma
yeah i would probably have got off my arse and learned what a crid
wasif the prize had been a top of the line g4 with cinema display.
I don't get out of bed for anything less than a G5 Dual Processor &
Cinema Screen Display
--
Chris Gilbert
07966 077 486
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 1 Sep 2005
Hi Steve,
Weather.com has a good XML feed that provides forecasts for up to 5 days in
advance. I think they're pretty OK about usage (the usuals - display their
logo, non commercial etc).
I've used it in the past and I have to say it's a dream to use!
David
-Original Message-
From: [EM
Me too!
I don't get out of bed for anything less than a G5 Dual Processor &
Cinema Screen Display
cheers
Jonathan Chetwynd
Accessibility Consultant on Learning Disabilities and the Internet
29 Crimsworth Road
SW8 4RJ
020 7978 1764
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Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To
tin and makes things really easy. So get to it folks...
Jim'll#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use TV::Anytime;
my $tv = TV::Anytime->new("20050901/");
my @searchterms = ('railway', 'computer');
print "Program Synopsis Keyword Search\n";
print
"TV Anytime might be a pain in the bum if you're writing a parser from
scratch. So don't - use one someone has already written!"
I assume you haven't tried doing it in PHP then :) I coded my own XML
parser in PHP a while ago (just as a challenge), and that works fairly
well to put the stuff
On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Duncan Barclay wrote:
I assume you haven't tried doing it in PHP then :)
No, and I didn't try doing it in Perl either. That's what CPAN is for...
;-) ;-)
Anyway, take a squint at http://conduit.lboro.ac.uk/cgi-bin/tva-search>
for a web version of my toy script. I notice
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