Re: [backstage] Tivo StopWatch beginner questions...

2007-07-17 Thread Sean Dillon
James Ockenden wrote: Interesting news from Tivo, it has been measuring 20,000 users second-by-second viewing habits. The results show people actually like the direct response ads better... more interesting i thought was how StopWatch managed the 20,000 CRID/URI-style info streaming in every

Re: [backstage] About our API

2007-07-17 Thread Jonathan Tweed
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:19:34 +0100, Mr I Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following from the debate about links for programmes... how about this? http://blogs.sun.com/sandoz/entry/bbc_web_api_beta - found via George. Funny this should come up now. The system we were just talking about in

Re: [backstage] Links to video/audio for specific shows

2007-07-17 Thread Tom Coates
I mean that's better in some ways certainly, but you'd probably also want to create some sort of canonical identifier that would represent the band so that if anyone was doing anything programmatically across the web they would be able to connect the two concepts. I mean, YOU might know

RE: [backstage] Links to video/audio for specific shows

2007-07-17 Thread Darren Stephens
OR I'd go for something much more interesting. Given that Wikipedia has pages on most of these artists and that-by its nature-it has to have a separate page for each one of them, then you can view that as a well maintained centralised controlled vocabulary. I'd probably go with using

RE: [backstage] Links to video/audio for specific shows

2007-07-17 Thread Chris Sizemore
I agree with tom coates on this one: if you DON'T use Wikipedia as a Web-native classification engine in your application, then you are missing a trick, because it proves intensely useful! one URI per distinct Concept? use those as subjects and objects in your RDF... talk about evidence for

Re: [backstage] About our API

2007-07-17 Thread Gordon Joly
At 11:36 +0100 17/7/07, Jonathan Tweed wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:19:34 +0100, Mr I Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following from the debate about links for programmes... how about this? http://blogs.sun.com/sandoz/entry/bbc_web_api_beta - found via George. Funny this should come up

Re: [backstage] Links to video/audio for specific shows

2007-07-17 Thread Kim Plowright
If we're talking sematic applications, it might actually be good for an organisation like the BBC (and partner broadcasters to actually sit down and work out some standard ontologies to make it easy for heavy duty (RDF-heavy) applications talk nicely to each other. It may even have some

RE: [backstage] Links to video/audio for specific shows

2007-07-17 Thread Darren Stephens
Don't get me wrong, for the right apps wikipedia is just great and gives you a great resource to work with. And it's true that in some cases if you DON'T use Wikipedia as a Web-native classification engine in your application, then you are missing a trick. Just not always. It's just that the

Re: [backstage] About our API

2007-07-17 Thread Jonathan Tweed
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:32:18 +0100, Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plus ca change? True, but the data differs in content as well as conceptual structure. I'm not overly familiar with the BBC Web API but there also seems to be more metadata in Pips. Pips is episode centric. You can ask

RE: [backstage] Links to video/audio for specific shows

2007-07-17 Thread Chris Sizemore
well said, darren... I must admit, I share your dream that auntie might play a role in the area you describe... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darren Stephens Sent: 17 July 2007 14:59 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE:

RE: [backstage] Links to video/audio for specific shows

2007-07-17 Thread Darren Stephens
Now, I might have this wrong - but you're suggesting that there should be a standard way of... describing data suggested by the BBC, so that all systems structure their data in the same way? Not quite. There should be one or more standards for appropriate applications suggested by a

Re: [backstage] Links to video/audio for specific shows

2007-07-17 Thread Gareth Smith
On 7/17/07, Darren Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There should be one or more standards for appropriate applications suggested by a wider community (broadcasters - of which the BBC is but one) so that all systems structure their data in a way that is able to be widely understood. For example,