RE: [backstage] Re: Uploading the BBC programme catalogue to freebase (was RE: [backstage] Programme Catalogue vs. Freebase (was: BBC Programme Catalogue -any APIs yet?))
Just a reminder that the top of the pops data is available under creative commons and has an xml representation (that could probably do with some work) and has musicbrainz ids and musicbrainz has been uploaded to freebase in it's entirety Unfortuntely it's under an attribution licence but like tom says about dr who, totp is clearly [a] BBC programme[s], I'm not sure it's the end of the world... It's something i've been meaning to do for weeks but keep getting bored reading the api docs. IF you wanna give it a go and need anything more from me shout... http://bbc-hackday.dyndns.org:2821/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Tom Loosemore Sent: Mon 7/9/2007 10:48 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Re: Uploading the BBC programme catalogue to freebase (was RE: [backstage] Programme Catalogue vs. Freebase (was: BBC Programme Catalogue -any APIs yet?)) On 09/07/07, Oliver Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 21:30 +0100, Brendan Quinn wrote: I was considering entering a hack for Hack Day around that very thing. But then they went and made me one of the judges ;-) Wanna help? A simple set of scripts that scrape the archive (er I mean call that big RESTful API) and post entries/updates to the freebase sandbox server would be an interesting experiment. I've not yet (bulk) posted data on Freebase - I'll take a look at this when I'm more au fait with it. compare http://www.freebase.com/view/?id=%239202a8c04000641f80012406 with http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/series/DOCTOR+WHO ! Freebase is still in alpha as far as I know - those who can't see the first link can see a screenshot at: http://cornflakes.imen.org.uk/~oli/DrWho.png Those who are particularly interested can feel free to ask me for one of my remaining 4 invites - and I imagine Brendan has some too. There may be some rights issues around what would basically amount to opening up the programme catalogue under the creative commons attribution license, where the attribution wouldn't go to the BBC but to Freebase... Well, the RDF for the catalogue links to http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/05/api_licence.html: The BBC grants to You a ... non-sublicensable right to copy... Further: d. not publish, distribute or otherwise make the APIs available, (including in any Work You create), in a way that would enable other people to download or use the APIs other than as set out in this Licence. standard backstage API licence - it was the only one lying around at the time... (nov 2005) I don't see any legal way that we can export the data to Freebase and relicense it as CC-BY. yeah... the attribution back to BBC kinda matters... though given the programmes are clearly BBC programmes, I'm not sure it's the end of the world... Would you be able to get the appropriate BBC people to get this done? I'll do a bit of lobbying... - 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/ winmail.dat
RE: [backstage] Re: Uploading the BBC programme catalogue to freebase (was RE: [backstage] Programme Catalogue vs. Freebase (was: BBC Programme Catalogue -any APIs yet?))
one final thought. getting both the programme catalogue and totp into freebase would allow us combine http://catalogue.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/LLVM414K and http://bbc-hackday.dyndns.org:2821/totp/episode/vj3n (the only episode i remember) and start to make links from bbc programmes to musicbrainz which would be a good thing -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Michael Smethurst Sent: Tue 7/10/2007 8:20 AM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Re: Uploading the BBC programme catalogue to freebase (was RE: [backstage] Programme Catalogue vs. Freebase (was: BBC Programme Catalogue -any APIs yet?)) Just a reminder that the top of the pops data is available under creative commons and has an xml representation (that could probably do with some work) and has musicbrainz ids and musicbrainz has been uploaded to freebase in it's entirety Unfortuntely it's under an attribution licence but like tom says about dr who, totp is clearly [a] BBC programme[s], I'm not sure it's the end of the world... It's something i've been meaning to do for weeks but keep getting bored reading the api docs. IF you wanna give it a go and need anything more from me shout... http://bbc-hackday.dyndns.org:2821/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Tom Loosemore Sent: Mon 7/9/2007 10:48 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Re: Uploading the BBC programme catalogue to freebase (was RE: [backstage] Programme Catalogue vs. Freebase (was: BBC Programme Catalogue -any APIs yet?)) On 09/07/07, Oliver Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 21:30 +0100, Brendan Quinn wrote: I was considering entering a hack for Hack Day around that very thing. But then they went and made me one of the judges ;-) Wanna help? A simple set of scripts that scrape the archive (er I mean call that big RESTful API) and post entries/updates to the freebase sandbox server would be an interesting experiment. I've not yet (bulk) posted data on Freebase - I'll take a look at this when I'm more au fait with it. compare http://www.freebase.com/view/?id=%239202a8c04000641f80012406 with http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/series/DOCTOR+WHO ! Freebase is still in alpha as far as I know - those who can't see the first link can see a screenshot at: http://cornflakes.imen.org.uk/~oli/DrWho.png Those who are particularly interested can feel free to ask me for one of my remaining 4 invites - and I imagine Brendan has some too. There may be some rights issues around what would basically amount to opening up the programme catalogue under the creative commons attribution license, where the attribution wouldn't go to the BBC but to Freebase... Well, the RDF for the catalogue links to http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/05/api_licence.html: The BBC grants to You a ... non-sublicensable right to copy... Further: d. not publish, distribute or otherwise make the APIs available, (including in any Work You create), in a way that would enable other people to download or use the APIs other than as set out in this Licence. standard backstage API licence - it was the only one lying around at the time... (nov 2005) I don't see any legal way that we can export the data to Freebase and relicense it as CC-BY. yeah... the attribution back to BBC kinda matters... though given the programmes are clearly BBC programmes, I'm not sure it's the end of the world... Would you be able to get the appropriate BBC people to get this done? I'll do a bit of lobbying... - 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/ winmail.dat
Re: [backstage] Re: Uploading the BBC programme catalogue to freebase (was RE: [backstage] Programme Catalogue vs. Freebase (was: BBC Programme Catalogue -any APIs yet?))
On 7/10/07, Tom Loosemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it'd be a much easier sell chez auntie if Freebase itself didn't demand attribution for any use of the content and data within it... why should the BBC give up attribution (its form of pseudo revenue) on its data and hand over attribution of credit and link juice to Freebase? Why does Freebase insist on its own attribution licence for 3rd party us of all content data other people upload? As I was pondering the answer to this question, it struck me that it's not clear on what basis Freebase.com exists - by which I mean Freebase.com the entity, rather than the content and data within it. Is Freebase.com a charity? Is it a not-for-profit? Is it fully commercial? Or is it just in its understandably confused early stages? The FAQ is not particularly forthcoming. http://www.freebase.com/signin/faq Not much chance of Auntie handing over its data to someone else to apply their - valuable - attribution licence too with so much uncertainty - however cool it would be from a tech and product and play angle. On 10/07/07, Michael Smethurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a reminder that the top of the pops data is available under creative commons and has an xml representation (that could probably do with some work) and has musicbrainz ids and musicbrainz has been uploaded to freebase in it's entirety Unfortuntely it's under an attribution licence but like tom says about dr who, totp is clearly [a] BBC programme[s], I'm not sure it's the end of the world... It's something i've been meaning to do for weeks but keep getting bored reading the api docs. IF you wanna give it a go and need anything more from me shout... http://bbc-hackday.dyndns.org:2821/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Tom Loosemore Sent: Mon 7/9/2007 10:48 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Re: Uploading the BBC programme catalogue to freebase (was RE: [backstage] Programme Catalogue vs. Freebase (was: BBC Programme Catalogue -any APIs yet?)) On 09/07/07, Oliver Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 21:30 +0100, Brendan Quinn wrote: I was considering entering a hack for Hack Day around that very thing. But then they went and made me one of the judges ;-) Wanna help? A simple set of scripts that scrape the archive (er I mean call that big RESTful API) and post entries/updates to the freebase sandbox server would be an interesting experiment. I've not yet (bulk) posted data on Freebase - I'll take a look at this when I'm more au fait with it. compare http://www.freebase.com/view/?id=%239202a8c04000641f80012406 with http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/series/DOCTOR+WHO ! Freebase is still in alpha as far as I know - those who can't see the first link can see a screenshot at: http://cornflakes.imen.org.uk/~oli/DrWho.png Those who are particularly interested can feel free to ask me for one of my remaining 4 invites - and I imagine Brendan has some too. There may be some rights issues around what would basically amount to opening up the programme catalogue under the creative commons attribution license, where the attribution wouldn't go to the BBC but to Freebase... Well, the RDF for the catalogue links to http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/05/api_licence.html: The BBC grants to You a ... non-sublicensable right to copy... Further: d. not publish, distribute or otherwise make the APIs available, (including in any Work You create), in a way that would enable other people to download or use the APIs other than as set out in this Licence. standard backstage API licence - it was the only one lying around at the time... (nov 2005) I don't see any legal way that we can export the data to Freebase and relicense it as CC-BY. yeah... the attribution back to BBC kinda matters... though given the programmes are clearly BBC programmes, I'm not sure it's the end of the world... Would you be able to get the appropriate BBC people to get this done? I'll do a bit of lobbying... - 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/ It always comes down to licensing issues, doesn't it? I have no problem with the BBC's licensing for this data, but I do agree that freebase seems a little sinister or over-eager. It feels like a lawsuit waiting to happen :) The BBC Programme Catalogue is an excellent resource that could just really do with some better API search result data. There's no XML data supplied
Re: [backstage] Re: Uploading the BBC programme catalogue to freebase (was RE: [backstage] Programme Catalogue vs. Freebase (was: BBC Programme Catalogue -any APIs yet?))
On 09/07/07, Oliver Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 21:30 +0100, Brendan Quinn wrote: I was considering entering a hack for Hack Day around that very thing. But then they went and made me one of the judges ;-) Wanna help? A simple set of scripts that scrape the archive (er I mean call that big RESTful API) and post entries/updates to the freebase sandbox server would be an interesting experiment. I've not yet (bulk) posted data on Freebase - I'll take a look at this when I'm more au fait with it. compare http://www.freebase.com/view/?id=%239202a8c04000641f80012406 with http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/series/DOCTOR+WHO ! Freebase is still in alpha as far as I know - those who can't see the first link can see a screenshot at: http://cornflakes.imen.org.uk/~oli/DrWho.png Those who are particularly interested can feel free to ask me for one of my remaining 4 invites - and I imagine Brendan has some too. There may be some rights issues around what would basically amount to opening up the programme catalogue under the creative commons attribution license, where the attribution wouldn't go to the BBC but to Freebase... Well, the RDF for the catalogue links to http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/05/api_licence.html: The BBC grants to You a ... non-sublicensable right to copy... Further: d. not publish, distribute or otherwise make the APIs available, (including in any Work You create), in a way that would enable other people to download or use the APIs other than as set out in this Licence. standard backstage API licence - it was the only one lying around at the time... (nov 2005) I don't see any legal way that we can export the data to Freebase and relicense it as CC-BY. yeah... the attribution back to BBC kinda matters... though given the programmes are clearly BBC programmes, I'm not sure it's the end of the world... Would you be able to get the appropriate BBC people to get this done? I'll do a bit of lobbying... - 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/