Andy What a great idea.
This immediately made me think of NPR who have a simple books page which aggregates their talk shows, highlighting all book related audio reviews, readings, interviews from across a vareity of sources in the preceding week/month (and has tie-ups with amazon) http://www.npr.org/templates/topics/topic.php?topicId=1032 I was pointed to that by this blog post http://deboramasweblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/deboramas-www-number-14-radi o-wrap-up.html Which rather takes the BBC to task although it does cite backstage when it admits "their attempts at involving the public are laudable and sometimes innovative." Anyway I'm sure Tristan (or his audio/music colleagues) will be on later to talk about some of your mark up queries. Thanks Jem > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Leighton > Sent: 06 March 2007 21:26 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: WEB API (was Re: [backstage] Noise and Signal) > > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:14:58PM -0000, Ian Forrester wrote: > > So I would like to remind people that the Backstage list is still a > > good place to talk shop about the industry, trends, the bbc and > > technologies. But were also a place for development and trying out > > some of the things discussed. > > Fair enough I've got some issues that could be kicked around a bit > > I'm currently messing about trying to do a simple web page > that produces a list of books (actually all linked through to > LibraryThing) featured on Book At Bedtime, Book Of The Week, > Book Talk, and A Good Read. > > There is no semantic markup on the first three to identify > the title of the book, although for Book At Bedtime the title > is often the first sentence of the synopsis. > > For A Good Read there is nothing in the synopsis at all > listing the books covered in that programme. There is a list > of past (inc. > the current programme) books chosen on the A Good Read > micro-site - but again without any sort of markup. Would it > be too difficult for someone to use something like <span > class="booktitle">The Rider</span> by <span > class="author">Tim Krabbe</span> > > I could try and scrape what is there at the moment, I > suppose, but it doesn't include the next programme, and is > bound to have me tearing my hair out. > > Is there any easier way to get at this data? > > > I know that some (many? all?) of the Radio 4 micro-sites are > being rewritten. Hopefully they will follow the lead of the > main bbc.co.uk homepage in having clean html which doesn't > use tables for layout, but can I also beg for more semantic > style markup by using class names? > It would also be nice if I could somehow get at the data by > using the Web API as well. > > -- > Andy Leighton => [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "The Lord is my shepherd, but we still lost the sheep dog trials" > - Robert Rankin, _They Came And Ate Us_ > - > 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/
