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 entries/updates to the freebase > sandbox server would be an interesting experiment.
I've not yet (bulk) posted data on Freebase - I'll take a look at this when I'm more au fait with it. > compare > http://www.freebase.com/view/?id=%239202a8c04000641f8000000000012406 > with > http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/series/DOCTOR+WHO > ! Freebase is still in alpha as far as I know - those who can't see the first link can see a screenshot at: http://cornflakes.imen.org.uk/~oli/DrWho.png Those who are particularly interested can feel free to ask me for one of my remaining 4 invites - and I imagine Brendan has some too. > There may be some rights issues around what would basically amount to > opening up the programme catalogue under the creative commons > attribution license, where the attribution wouldn't go to the BBC but to > Freebase... Well, the RDF for the catalogue links to http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/05/api_licence.html: "The BBC grants to You a ... non-sublicensable right to copy..." Further: d. not publish, distribute or otherwise make the APIs available, (including in any Work You create), in a way that would enable other people to download or use the APIs other than as set out in this Licence. I don't see any legal way that we can export the data to Freebase and relicense it as CC-BY. I don't think it can be done without a relicensing of the catalogue - I guess its lucky you didn't go ahead and write that script at Hack day :) Would you be able to get the appropriate BBC people to get this done? Regards, Oli > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oliver Cole > Sent: 09 July 2007 20:51 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: [backstage] Programme Catalogue vs. Freebase (was: BBC > Programme Catalogue -any APIs yet?) > > I've been following the Programme Catalogue since it was announced, and > its pretty interesting. > > I do however have a question for the BBC people on the list - have you > considered simply uploading all the information to Freebase[1]? I can > understand that you might want to keep it in house, but if you merged it > with the wealth of information on Freebase you can do exponentially > more. > > For example, if it was properly integrated you could run a query that > would tell me how many of the contributors to Spooks series 2 were born > in London. > > Regards, > Oli > > [1] http://www.freebase.com - A very cool structured database, currently > handling 2.3 million instances of 870 'types' > > - > 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/
