How about there being a wiki hosted on backstage that we can all use to aggregate info about sources and all that other stuff?
I'd love to have a home for all the pointers to data useful for mapping related resources related to backstage projects... Matt On 5/29/05, Ben Metcalfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > For those of you interested http://www.bleb.org/tv/ provides XML > > listings of the all the major UK TV channels, this could be used in a > > number of ways within other BBC content! > > > > It's become apparent that there is a lot of merging of data from > > different sources such as Google, BBC etc. Would it be beneficial if > > the backstage site or an independent site started cataloging > > some of the > > resources which could be used? I realise that that the site currently > > lists prototyping and mostly internal BBC feeds but listings good > > external resources would be excellent. > > > > James. > > Hi James > > Your right - there are plenty of really good external resources out > there. Remixing content from varying sources is certainly a good > strategy to create a successful prototype. > > To that endeavour, we're certainly keen to list useful external feeds > within our Feeds and API's pages (http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/). > > As you can appreciate, being an official BBC site, there are certain > restrictions placed upon me as to what I can link to from > backstage.bbc.co.uk. I'm not 100% of our position on bleb.org at this > point in time (hey, it's 3am on a bank holiday!) but I'm pretty sure > it's something we wouldn't be able to link to it if it scrapes it's > content from a third-party provider (I *believe* it does - but let me > know if you know better!) - I don't think there are any official, freely > licenced/legel UK TV listing XML sources on the Internet at the moment. > > If you guys want to start compiling lists of useful resources and links > like this on your own sites, I'll see if we can link to them. Let me > know > > > Cheers > Ben Metcalfe :: backstage.bbc.co.uk > > > >
