Andrew Bowden wrote:
I see the film reviews are nolonger being updated on the BBC
site. Does anyone know why and will this mean that the film
reviews xml feeds will no longer be updated.
The Movies site (and it's associated section on BBCi) formally closed on
6 May 2008 - they've left the archive online, however there won't be any
new reviews. As such, the feeds won't get updated.
The ratings DB at http://www.bbc.co.uk/movies/ (assume this is the site
you're talking about) still seems open for business. I voted on a couple
of movies and it increased the counter, eg. 'Average rating: 4 from 701
votes' in
http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/03/28/panic_room_2002_review.shtml#
Will the system carry on accepting ratings indefinitely? Is there any
way to get a movie ratings data dump out of /cgi-perl/polling/poll.pl ?
Seems like a nice collection of data, even if it won't be updated.
There are people pages too, even enough to play the 6 degrees of Kevin
Bacon game, albeit on a dataset much smaller than IMDB:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/gateways/star/baconkevin/
If http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/catalogue_offline.shtml were back
online, it might be fun to match up the identifiers to find other
appearances of the same actors elsewhere in BBCland...
cheers,
Dan
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