RE: Uploading the BBC programme catalogue to freebase (was RE: [backstage] Programme Catalogue vs. Freebase (was: BBC Programme Catalogue -any APIs yet?))

2007-07-25 Thread Jeremy Stone
Hi Graeme Get in touch with me off list and we can sort this out. thanks Jem Stone. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Robin Doran Sent: Tue 7/24/2007 9:50 PM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk; backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: Uploading the BBC programme

Re: Uploading the BBC programme catalogue to freebase (was RE: [backstage] Programme Catalogue vs. Freebase (was: BBC Programme Catalogue -any APIs yet?))

2007-07-24 Thread Graeme West
Hi all, Sorry to re-open an old thread - just wondering what the position is on scraping the catalogue.bbc.co.uk test site? I say this because I'm trying a little experiment - ingesting the whole catalogue into our Fedora repository ( http://www.fedora.info ) to be cross-referenced with

RE: Uploading the BBC programme catalogue to freebase (was RE: [backstage] Programme Catalogue vs. Freebase (was: BBC Programme Catalogue -any APIs yet?))

2007-07-24 Thread Robin Doran
Hi Graeme, The robots.txt file has been accidentally dropped from the new release and we will be re-introducing it, this is due to initial concerns complaints raised about personal data population in external search engines when the service was launched. On the subject of scraping the

RE: [backstage] Re: Uploading the BBC programme catalogue to freebase (was RE: [backstage] Programme Catalogue vs. Freebase (was: BBC Programme Catalogue -any APIs yet?))

2007-07-10 Thread Michael Smethurst
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

RE: [backstage] Re: Uploading the BBC programme catalogue to freebase (was RE: [backstage] Programme Catalogue vs. Freebase (was: BBC Programme Catalogue -any APIs yet?))

2007-07-10 Thread Michael Smethurst
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

Re: [backstage] Re: Uploading the BBC programme catalogue to freebase (was RE: [backstage] Programme Catalogue vs. Freebase (was: BBC Programme Catalogue -any APIs yet?))

2007-07-10 Thread Jonathan Powell
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

RE: Uploading the BBC programme catalogue to freebase (was RE: [backstage] Programme Catalogue vs. Freebase (was: BBC Programme Catalogue -any APIs yet?))

2007-07-09 Thread Chris Sizemore
http://catalogue.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/series/DR+WHO holy synonomous concepts, batman... (http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/series/DOCTOR+WHO) point is, it would be easy to merge these on freebase, nearly impossible directly in the BBC Programme Catalogue context... suppose this all

[backstage] Re: Uploading the BBC programme catalogue to freebase (was RE: [backstage] Programme Catalogue vs. Freebase (was: BBC Programme Catalogue -any APIs yet?))

2007-07-09 Thread Oliver Cole
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

[backstage] RE: Uploading the BBC programme catalogue to freebase (was RE: [backstage] Programme Catalogue vs. Freebase (was: BBC Programme Catalogue -any APIs yet?))

2007-07-09 Thread Oliver Cole
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 22:05 +0100, Chris Sizemore wrote: holy synonomous concepts, batman... point is, it would be easy to merge these on freebase, nearly impossible directly in the BBC Programme Catalogue context... Indeed, Freebase is superior in this regard. arguably, the BBC has done

Re: [backstage] Re: Uploading the BBC programme catalogue to freebase (was RE: [backstage] Programme Catalogue vs. Freebase (was: BBC Programme Catalogue -any APIs yet?))

2007-07-09 Thread Tom Loosemore
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