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Humn -
This was a Tom Coates-y project, and he's now elsewhere. So I imagine (as it was
a proof of concept thing, IIRC) that it's dormant...
Shines
the Dan Hill signal on the clouds:
DAN!
Any idea what the status of Phonetags is?
Also -
have a search for Dan's postings
a bit difficult to get to, categorise, download in bulk etc.
If there's anyone out there interested in video search / social tagging
/ yadda yadda it might make an interesting start to a project?
Kim
Kim Plowright
New Product Development SCP, BBC iD&E
MC1 D6 08, Media Centre, BBC Medi
engine runs on PHP+MySQL.
Dima Kuchin
http://k78.info
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Hello chaps,
You all seem a bit... underwhelmed by the celebdaq game data being made
available. Is there any extra info I can get you that would make it more
useful / easier to work with?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/celebdaq/syndication/1/docs/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/celebdaq/
K
Kim Plowright
New
atch the prices of
> celebs when day trading. Maybe you could post it somewhere
> the daq players will be more likely to see it? I couldn't
> find it on the site.
>
>Helen
>
> Kim Plowright wrote:
>
> >Hello chaps,
> >
> >You all seem a bit...
Vijay - I'm not aware of any plans to open-source it, but I'm asking
around.
Re GorDaq - no, think that's completely separate. There's sportdaq,
which does run on the same engine. The politics one is a lovely idea -
I'm surprised no-one's thought of it. You could run it on Hansard
credits rather t
t is
released, we'll be the first to know, right? ;-)
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Vijay
- I'm not aware of any plans to open-source it, but I'm
askingaround.
Hello,
I had a chat with my insiders at the BBC weather centre. They like the
idea of working to make the tide data available, and are going to look
at how they might do that. Obviously, they can't promise anything at the
moment...
Kind of all I can do for now, but it's a start!
Kim
> -Orig
OK - IANAL, and I'm not involved with news, or the homearchive, so this
is me with the only-semi-bbc hat on.
I can't see any reference to images in news's Terms of Use etc...'Fair
Use' is unlikely to apply to images reused elsewhere; even if an image
is 'small' it is still the image; it isn't an '
Quick general recap - sorry, have only just managed to dip in to the
list again,
- yep - people here are aware of the accessibility requirements under
the DDA, and there's been some excellent internal training and awareness
run which covered learning disabilities along with more the standard
visua
No, but I can try and find out for you.
Sorry for the slow reply; backstage is kind of rudderless
at the moment, and Ben was the man with the answers. I'll do my best to keep an
eye on the list between my other two jobs... it shouldn't be too long before
BenMk2 takes over the project.
Kim
I'll give the relevant people a poke for you.
And please accept my general appologies on behalf of Auntie.
K
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>5) Flash is one of the most abused web technologies in the world ever.
>Disabling it by either not having it installed or using a flash-blocker
type app/extension can save a lot of
>eye-bleeding pain from those crazy kooky marketing guys.
/me laughs so hard she blows coffee out of her nose.
Actu
Agreed - a lovely thing.
So... hmn. What about plotting news publication times
against a similar timeline? Or...um, crikey, OK - Celebdaq prices graphed
over time against mentions in news stories on bbc.co.uk? Or... blog/search
activity around a programme name (publication times?) against i
e categories from http://alistapart.com/topics/ because they seemed to make sense.
Kim
Kim Plowright | Snr. Producer, New Product Development
BBC Interactive Drama and Entertainment | MC1D6, BBC Media Village, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7TQ
Rules of the Road for web2.0 sites: Data, Metadata, I
cher as more people use them
> Trusting users as co-developers
> Harnessing collective
intelligence
> Leveraging the long tail through
customer self-service
> Software above the level of a
single device
> Lightweight user interfaces,
development models, AND b
I'm seeing it internally - can anyone confirm it's dead
outside the firewall?
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MentiSent: 17 July 2006 14:00To:
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down?
The server hosting the BBC Web A
OK - so, the summary API/Ajax thoughts...
APIs
- are good. We love APIs.
- They give as much benefit within an organisation - (linking up
internal systems) as they do when publically exposed (mashups)
- There are different flavours of API, and the right API should be used
for the job; always use
OK, by the magic of telnet and white text on a black
screen, I've found out that the people that need to know about this do, and are
looking in to it. Can't give you anything approaching a time it might work
again, sorry.
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behave when playing nice on the
internet."
The ways that code etc should behave will depend upon what you are going
to allow; what content can be used to what end and by whom?
Pete Cole
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Hi all
As threatened, here it is.
Title: Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy...I'd love you to give us some feedback
Crikey!
Hello Phil, and nice to see you decloak (as it is to hear
from all of these new names, by the way)
Those are lovely explainations, thankyou. (incidentally,
i'm glad people
Title: Weather Feeds: these are NOT covered under the backstage terms, please do NOT use them.
Hello Everyone,
Jem is not around today, so I've been asked to put my official BBC hat on [1] and let you all know the situation with the weather feeds referenced below.
Here's the short version
terms, please do NOT use them.
Ah - ignore my lat mail then. J
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Subject: [backstage] Weather Feeds: these are NOT covered under the
backstage terms, please do NOT
one else doing it ) and so in the cold light of day I
realise it was a little irresponsible for me to encourage you to put the
data on your site.
Please be patient whilst the BBC continues to work out an 'official'
weather offering with the Met Office.
Cheers
Ben
On 27/07/06, Kim P
Title: The Time When - new feeds!
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2006/08/memo_4_new.html
Enjoy. And don’t forget applications for the running backstage job shut on Monday!
Kim Plowright | Snr. Producer, New Product Development
BBC Interactive Drama and Entertainment
Done!
kim
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Subject: Re: [backstage] Feeds & APIs page down again - fixed
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 01:17:54PM +0100, Mario Menti wrote
Gratz Mr. Ian!
xk
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Yes - It's surprisingly patchy, the different coverages isn't it? I just
tried to place some photos I took in West Africa... Has anyone ever
tried plotting the various map services on top of each other, to augment
the lowfi sectors of each? Mind you, I'm sure it would be completely
against the TOS.
Mario
Have you seen this? Might be up your
street...
http://www.3pointd.com/20061023/sustaining-the-metaverse-a-3pointd-think-tank/
(just saw your technorati pillars,
nice!)
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Any subsequent republication of the libel is also
actionable, though...
IANAL!
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WinstanleySent: 25 October 2006 09:03To:
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News site monito
ase
and desist letter for using this information, sadly.
Regards
On 25 Oct 2006, at 11:50, Kim Plowright wrote:
Any
subsequent republication of the libel is also actionable,
though...
IANAL!
From:
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> I’d be interested to know the technical
set-up behind Virgin and the BBC’s last.fm pages though (i.e. how the track data
gets from the playout system to the last.fm page) – I’d gather it’s not as
simple as> hooking up the
last.fm player to whatever you use for your playout – I use the
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On 10/31/06, James
Oh, dear, that makes me sound like a tit, that blogpost :-)
I think there's some *really* interesting stuff going on in SL at the
moment (Mario, Kosso, hello!) - but there's a lot of hype around the
platform, too; a lot of big companies are going a bit mental about it. I
heard someone say the othe
Hmn,
You're all very quiet.
Hung over?
Kim
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I see your 'written by a Torrent site' and raise you a 'written by a
broadcaster'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6168950.stm
"Some 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a mobile
device at least once a week said they watched less normal TV as a
result."
Sigh.
-Ori
Heh, Second Life
Speaking of which: the list might be interested in this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcone/listings/programme.shtml?day=tuesday&service
_id=4223&FILENAME=20061205/20061205_2235_4223_3276_50 (Mn, how
broken are our listing pages? Quick, someone remind me of one of the
mashups?)
I'll be there - anyone else?
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Oh - and I've got the Nabaztag WiFi bunny wired up so that it tells me
in RL whenever someone enters the office in SL (where there's a virtual
bunny)
Oh my god, that's fantastic! Demo! Demo on youtube immediately!
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Um - it depends what you're after? Statistics, or general 'isn't the bbc
marvellous?' kind of stuff? I might be able to dig some stuff out.
What/who is the report for?
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Sen
"FEES AND SERVICES . Subject to Section 15 herein, the Service is
provided without charge to You for up to 5 million pageviews per month
per account, "
http://www.google.com/analytics/tos.html
I'll tell you this: our volume is a wee bit more than 5m PI/month. :)
We do have a big internal stats
FFMpeg?
(I may have misunderstood what you're after tho)
http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/
>FFmpeg is a complete solution to record, convert and stream audio and
video. It includes libavcodec, the leading audio/video codec library.
FFmpeg is developed under Linux, but it can compiled under most
operating
>Haven't played it myself but Yahoo and O Reilly have had this out for
a couple of years now.
>"The Tech Buzz Game is a fantasy prediction market for high-tech
products, concepts, and trends"
Always struck me as a very clever way for Yahoo! to get ahead of the
curve market information on where to
>>> Maybe we should try and get more BBC managers here.
>>
>> How do you know there not watching this already? Seriously!
Define Managers?
Because, well, if Tom L (in charge of plan for future of bbc.co.uk), Jem
(in charge of strategy group for user generated content), Matt L (in
charge of in
>At the moment Mark Kermode's review of The Last King of Scotland is
currently available as a podcast on the BBC site, and a link to that in
the same feed would be excellent! (There is an RSS feed that contains a
reference to this podcast, but as far as I can tell, it has no
relationship to the fe
do
something with it (i.e., do more than just list the data), and then
discover that you can't put the results on a map (for example) because
the feed doesn't include appropriate geo data.
Regards,
Mark
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> >At the moment
You are a very very nice man.
x
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> Yeah - I know that you can't do anything fun unless we can give y
I've been lurking on the Musicbrainz dev list for years; iirc, there is
some hidden category to make duets/collaborations like that resolve to
two artists.
It may well be worth finding their list archives to check we're not
about to rediscuss all of the conversations!
(Is Rob Mayhem and Chaos on
Now - an aside - Musicbrainz was set up because of Gracenote. If I
understand correctly, the dataset that Gracenote CDDB is based on was
orginally an 'open' database with information contributed by the public.
It was sold, and changed its licensing structures away from the original
open source mode
BTW - stumbled across this last night
http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/ftvdb/
Might be useful, or at least somewhere to poke to open up their data,
too? (Did the Movies Data list get set up?)
Thanks for the LibraryThing tipoff from last week, too.
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> Any more suggestions?
Gosh, inspired by Nick
You might want to understand 'sections within a longer chunk' - for
things like continuous performances where 'songs' elide in to one
another / there's no break between movements, and you have an arbitrary
change point / blending period between 'song
o mean to them, they're a nice bunch. I used to use their library
back in the day.)
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Hi Kim,
Read the press release, penguinista! :)
"This requires the BBC to develop an alternative DRM framework to enable
users of other technology, for example, Apple and Linux, to access the
on-demand..."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/news/press-releases/31-01-2007.html
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Cor blimey, it's like watching Walter Benjamin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Mechanical_Reproduction
and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon
Go at it like luchadores.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucha_libre
>On 31/01/07, Jam
>> I believe that you would see some big players come forward to take
>> advantage of the service. At the same time it opens the power of the
>> BBC to lesser known artists, independent studios and even totally
>> independent artists (a bit like a book publisher who accepts
unsolicited manusc
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> Great idea. They could call it "Young Filmmaker Of The Year." Get
Michael Rodd to judge the entries.
Or maybe Film Network? That's got a nice ring to it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/
And you could do something similar fo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
Web2.0 in a nutshell.
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could submit previous short stories to the BBC for a possibility of a
reading on a BBC radio station (probably BBC 7, though I'd personally
like BBC radio 4).
[Kim Plowright] So, here's a dumb question, that I'm going to ask anyway
because sometimes they get interesting answers.
> (Having said that, looking at
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/ now I see most of the
> images are 404ing and the navbar at the top says "[an error
> occurred while processing this directive]" - so I guess
> Auntie doesn't care for minorities that much afterall...)
Sometimes a server g
> (Yep - the BBC doesn't even own the Daleks...)
The BBC owns *half* the daleks - specifically, the look and visual identity.
The estate of Terry Nation owns their behaviour.
So - if you want to use a picture of a dalek, you approach the BBC. If you want
said dalek to move around shouting 'E
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> Bias??? >Click and Torrents)
>
> On 13/02/07, Kim Plowright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> I wish I was being paid to debate this stuff, haha :-D
I'm not paid to debate this stuff. I do it for 'fun'. Ha ha.
Re other arguments:
I DON'T KNOW. I AM NOT A RIGHTS LAWYER.
I was just trying to explain my understanding of the situation.
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Heh
(aside)
I know it's 'rubbish flash', but this was the first area of the BBC site I
produced all on my own:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/testcards/
They're made by a chap called Dave Jeffrey - more of his stuff here
http://625.uk.com/tv_logos/flash.htm
Oddly, I got a phonecall about them
> >> I had to rescue the original FLA file from a Zip100 disk that I've
> been keeping safe in my desk drawer for about six years...
>
> Ah, BBC archiving at its finest :-)
Hey, don't knock it. :-)
I once rescued a record of the output of the old drama plays department.
It had been originally
Yes - you could charactarise the US way of working as a way of
maximising ad revenue from a the diminishing halo of a brand, regardless
of whether creatively the project is still vigorous. Or, in plainer
language, flogging a dead horse.
Not to say there aren't long runs of UK stuff. My Family, for
Aha!
Back in the day (about 4 years ago) BBC Web producers were measured on
Page Impressions, rather than the now current Unique Users.
On older sites you'll find a lot of areas like galleries, articles, and
quizzes that split content in to lots of subpages, and encouraged
repeated clicking.
Th
> And doesn't work underground on the Tube?
"Despite its name, about 55% of the network is above ground."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground
> It would of course work in cities which allow mobile phone
> use on their underground railways (e.g. Stockholm).
Coming in 2008
http://news
So... an aquaintance is organising a pervasive gaming event on the south bank,
and wants to run a mobile phone based game during the event.
Is anyone here a genius with any of the following, or know any harware types
that might be willing to provide sponsorship in kind?
This is *completely with
> >So... an aquaintance is organising a pervasive gaming event on the
> >south bank, and wants to run a mobile phone based game during the
> >event.
Cor, thanks for all the leads, that's extremely useful!
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Here's a chunk of stats. This is based on Page views. Anything below
about 100k page views is registering as Zero percent, FYI, although each
browser listed is showing *some* page impressions. 3 page views were in
IE1.5! How sweet.
I've stripped out the PI numbers, sorry, as I think that might be
Just for fun: the february data reworked to show the different flavours
of IE at their appropriate % point. There's not much difference between
Safari (all versions) and IE5.5 share. Again, I can't break out the
different flavours of FF and Safari. Bear in mind this is % of PIs, not
of users, so he
Hey, we just *did* publish it! :)
I'll try and remember to send an update out every month or so, when I'm
noodling through our stats system.
> Thank you very much to everyone for sharing this data - it
> really is very interesting. And I second the request for the
> BBC to publish this data (ju
If you read Martin Belam (hello Martin!) on the methods he used to derive these
figures, you'll note that he's extremely thorough in his data analysis.
http://www.currybet.net/articles/user_agents/index.php I think you should read
a little levity in to Jem's use of a grin after the Linux comment
> Is it possible that these stats could be provided
> automatically, say on a daily basis so it can be used to
> track the use of browsers and platforms.
No.
Slightly longer answer - the stats system is problematic, and doesn't
provide easy ways to route this kind of thing externally. It's unde
> For
> people who actually use a computer for what it is intended,
Wow. That's quite some statement.
I'd compose an elegant riposte if I didn't have to go off to IKEA post
haste, because I've just noticed on their website that the chair and
desk I want to set up my desktop PC is in, and I hav
You'd pay $30 and up for an album on CD? Are you mad?
I suppose you do get a convenient hard copy backup too...
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> > You'd pay $30 and up for an album on CD? Are you mad?
> >
> > I suppose you do get a convenient hard copy backup too...
>
> Apple won't be changing the album price.
Not the point I was making. Ian was saying he'd pay $3 for an un DRMed
high quality track; which is a *silly price* when you c
I've let the head of New Media at BBC Worldwide Magazines know about
this, by the way.
Kim
> > > However, as people probably realise the data isn't being
> updated anymore.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a clue?
> Just had a boilerplate response from them - seems unlikely my
> email reached a
/me guesses, somehow, that the denizens of this list are somewhat
demographically homogeneous.
> I got kicked off after about 60% when I said I was male. hhm.
> Oh well, perhaps 35-44 age bracket is already full.
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Well - I ruled myself out of the running for this as frankly, I'm great
at drawing, cooking, sewing and making stuff (among other ladylike
pursuits), but rubbish at coding and electrickery.
Tom C left a comment suggesting I find a group of people to team up
with.
So if anyone wants a hack-team
"The distinctive characteristic of the Analytical Engine, and that which
has rendered it possible to endow mechanism with such extensive
faculties as bid fair to make this engine the executive right-hand of
abstract algebra, is the introduction into it of the principle which
Jacquard devised for re
Hey
Just in case there's anyone here who is a creative type, but not
necessarily a web developer - there's a new thing kicking off on Film
Network based around making your own music-inspired short film / video.
I'm guessing, btw, that there's a fairly big crossover in creative
disciplines between
> > Dear sweet evil Jesus on a pogo stick, don't start that up again!
LOLS
> Ah, before my time and this is the first time I'd seen this
> writeup (or any writeup as considered).
Refers the honourable gentlemen to archive URL below. Suggests he takes
a look. You know, just so he understands w
Would a portable device/wearable device which
blocked/scrambled GSM/Wireless/3-G frequencies within a 2
metre radius be illegal?
I imagine it would be easier to make than blocking the sound
Nothing that a 'Oh *DO* be quiet you tedious little man!' coupled with
a swift tap on the head with a p
Ooh, nice! Ta.
You might also be interested in http://infosthetics.com/
and this rather lovely one
http://megamu.com/lastfm/
I tried fidg't http://www.fidgt.com/visualize the first one linked in
your article, but couldn't get it to form any meaningful patterns. So
- lots of data, but didn't reall
I _suspect_ they just fob people off and ignore complaints they
dislike. Or maybe I was unlucky and the two people I communicated with
didn't do their job properly?
Audience comms and complaints are outsourced to Capita.
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From what I remember, the recipes data is quite complex - lots of
different copyright holders.
On 04/06/07, Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Good question,
I don't think we had any plans although we are working on other data sets. But
maybe food could be a nice little database which w
I showed this to the BBC's Film Production arm a couple of months ago... :-)
list know of a project to produce a CC-licensed film called A Swarm Of
Angels. You can sign up either as a supporter (£5) or a full member (£25;
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Also
Walter Benjamin's 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work_of_Art_in_the_Age_of_Mechanical_Reproduction
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
"An analysis of art in the age of mechanical reproduction
http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/
Davy - was trying to show someone mood news - has it gone?
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I just thought I'd say - I'm currently at the iSummit in dubrovnik.
There's a lot of interesting conversation going on around these topics
- if anyone's interested, info is here http://www.icommons.org/
I'm guessing that session recordings etc will be available later. Will
post details if I fin
On 15/06/07, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It takes people outside the "media-land" as you put it because the
people inside are too ignorant of technology to understand it.
If media people had known even the very basics of how a PC works then
we would never have had DRM in the first place.
Here in the US, that is not the case. It is much harder to find such DVD
players.
Because they contravene the DMCA act? IANAL, and certainly not across
american law, but I thought it expressly forbade the circumventing of
content locks?
Incidentally, I'm sure the only reason BBC content isn't w
Mac mini - not so much heat
LCD monitor / powerbrick for LCD monitor / powerbrick for macmini -
quite a lot of heat.
On 27/06/07, Ian Betteridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I can't imagine that a Mac mini produces much heat... would something like
that or the Zonbu be a solution?
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I believe the reason that multi-region DVD players are hard to find in the
States is simply because multi-standard televisions are uncommon there.
Aha, occam's razor. Of course - the Pal/Ntsc thing is the showstopper
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/me cries
On 11/07/07, Chris Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ideally the BBC would maintain a set of permanent URLs for each
programme and episode, which in turn reference a range of URIs where
the audio and video can be found, now or in the future, whether via
DVB various or Internet. This
> /me cries
Please can you cry your suggestion please?
Not so much suggestion as frustration.
A lot of good people, including myself and Mr Sizemore (and a certain
Mr Tom Coates, who you may have heard of) have expended an awful lot
of energy over the last few years trying to get somewhere with
Frinstance:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/listings/programme.shtml?day=today&service_id=4224&filename=20070712/20070712_2130_4224_15733_30
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/noise/?programme=hyperdrive
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/hyperdrive/
http://catalogue.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/series/HYPERDRIVE
F
On 16/07/07, Matthew Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
James Cridland wrote:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/breakfast/pip/jrjen/ - good.
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/breakfast/archive/07/07/10/ - better.
That's not better; URLs are supposed to be unique. Okay, Breakfast isn't a
great example
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 applicatio
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