Dear all, We need to bring you up to date with developments with one of the feeds that BBC Backstage introduced to the community. The BBC travel data RSS and tpegML feeds were highlighted by us some years ago, but it's about to change for mainly technical reasons, and any services dependent upon it will need to find alternative data supplies.
There's a complex context to these feeds. It's not owned by Backstage, as you'll be aware. It comes from the News area of the BBC, the English Regions team in Birmingham actually. They buy it in (under licence) from a commercial 3rd-party supplier, Trafficlink Limited. It was via these terms that Backstage were able to offer the feed to our members through the standard Backstage terms and conditions - i.e. personal, non-commercial use. However, at the same time, for unconnected reasons, the actual technical platform that the current feeds come from is changing. This is down to a number of essential reasons - you'll understand that BBC sites need better, more scalable and supportable platforms. In redesigning the Travel News site the feeds used are changing, and the RSS and tpegML feeds that you've been able to point to won't be there any more, as that system is being decommissioned. We probably should have made this clearer sooner. We've migrated a lot of Backstage, closed off some, but in the midst of this process we haven't given you, the Journalism team or Trafficlink the information you needed to see this change coming, and if we had, perhaps some of the tension of recent weeks wouldn't have been so strident. We're sorry. Now that the migration of feeds is done the support information will be available at http://support.bbc.co.uk/platform/feeds/TravelFeeds.htm Ant _______________________ Ant Miller, Senior Research Manager mobile: +44 (0)7809 597757 BBC Research & Development Technology Transfer, External Communications South Lab, BBC Centre House 56 Wood Lane London W12 7SB http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/rd/ http://www.bbcarchive.org.uk/pmwiki/ - 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/
