Re: [backstage] Film Reviews
Hi, Does anyone know why ... The Movies producer says, As there are a great many services that provide listings and written reviews on the web, the BBC has decided to focus its efforts elsewhere, so we will no longer be updating the site. The red button movie service and www.bbc.co.uk/movies have been closed from today as they were not offering a distinctive service for film audiences. The decision was taken after a full review of the services within the context of the broader market and other BBC film digital offerings. will this mean that the film reviews xml feeds will no longer be updated. Yup, afraid so. This data existed to produce the various movies services. Will the system carry on accepting ratings indefinitely? Yep. Is there any way to get a movie ratings data dump out of /cgi-perl/polling/poll.pl ? The Movies production staff don't mind if we publish a copy of the entire review database. Each review contains a polling ID that you could use to fetch the results using this URL, http://www.bbc.co.uk/movies/syndication/1/user-rating/[id]/rating.xml Or as Robin mentions, we could just extract the Movies data from the communal rating database. Is anyone else interested in this? Thanks, M - Vision / FMT On 29/5/08 16:07, Dan Brickley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 -- http://danbri.org/ - 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/
Re: [backstage] Movies Data
This looks really useful. One thing i've noticed is the film details don't have a link to the BBC Page, so there is no way of linking back to you easily. Good point. The copies you see are the inputs to the Movies production system from which the URL's are later derived. Are we allowed to link directly to the Movies Cinema search page from any pages created using these feeds? Yup, you can do. Alternatively, the production cycle dictates the reviews will appear in a dated archive the next Friday after the date under in the datereviewed node, eg. if date review is 1st Jan 2007, the review will be added to ... - http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/gateways/release/review/cinema/20070105.shtml Or, the datereviewed node + the XML file name + .shtml will also give you the URL of the HTML review. if review is 1st Jan 2007, the XML document miss_potter_2006_review.xml - http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2007/01/01/miss_potter_2006_review.shtml Neither solution is ideal, sorry, but I hope that helps find your way around. M On 16/1/07 20:13, Adam Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This looks really useful. One thing i've noticed is the film details don't have a link to the BBC Page, so there is no way of linking back to you easily. Are we allowed to link directly to the Movies Cinema search page from any pages created using these feeds? Adam Matt Chadburn wrote: Hi, Due in part to the new BBC Movies Interactive TV service that launched today we've had the opportunity to tidy up and document the output of a few systems that create the bbc.co.uk/movies site ... - http://www.bbc.co.uk/movies/syndication/1/docs/ The service includes a few handy RSS feeds ... * Weekly Cinema Reviews - Films out in UK cinemas this week. * Coming Soon - Films out in UK cinemas in the next few weeks. * Further Ahead - Approximate release dates for Films out in the next year Along with various parts of the site in various flavours of XML ... * Film Reviews - Official BBC Movies review. Contains cast, crew etc. * User Rating - Star based user ratings. * User Comments - User submitted mini-reviews and opinions. * What's On - Films showing on the BBC this week Would love to hear from anyone with interesting ideas on what they might do with the information or any pointers on improvements we might make. And for Red Button (DSat, Freeview, DCable) fans ... With BBC Movies, you can watch video interviews, reviews, special features and trailers. Plus, you can access cinema listings for your area, win prizes, add your own reviews, and generally keep up to date on all things movies. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/bbci/ Thanks, Matt - Interactive Drama Entertainment - 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/ - 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/
Re: [backstage] Movies Data
Matt Chadburn wrote: Would love to hear from anyone with interesting ideas on what they might do with the information or any pointers on improvements we might make. I presume the data on showing times at each cinema is provided by and therefore under the licence of the PA? Maybe. i'll look in to the contract details, which might take a few days to track down someone who knows the answer. M - 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/
[backstage] Movies Data
Hi, Due in part to the new BBC Movies Interactive TV service that launched today we've had the opportunity to tidy up and document the output of a few systems that create the bbc.co.uk/movies site ... - http://www.bbc.co.uk/movies/syndication/1/docs/ The service includes a few handy RSS feeds ... * Weekly Cinema Reviews - Films out in UK cinemas this week. * Coming Soon - Films out in UK cinemas in the next few weeks. * Further Ahead - Approximate release dates for Films out in the next year Along with various parts of the site in various flavours of XML ... * Film Reviews - Official BBC Movies review. Contains cast, crew etc. * User Rating - Star based user ratings. * User Comments - User submitted mini-reviews and opinions. * What's On - Films showing on the BBC this week Would love to hear from anyone with interesting ideas on what they might do with the information or any pointers on improvements we might make. And for Red Button (DSat, Freeview, DCable) fans ... With BBC Movies, you can watch video interviews, reviews, special features and trailers. Plus, you can access cinema listings for your area, win prizes, add your own reviews, and generally keep up to date on all things movies. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/bbci/ Thanks, Matt - Interactive Drama Entertainment - 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/
[backstage] Price Elasticity, Capital Gains, and Claudia Winkleman
Hi, We are trialling the public release of lots of editorial market data from our multi-player trading engine responsible for running the Celebdaq and Sportdaq games. There's some information about this here :- http://www.bbc.co.uk/celebdaq/syndication/1/docs/ Angelina Jolie has been trading well since her sonogram was listed on eBay. I hope someone can put this information to good use. Have a nice weekend, Matt Chadburn Senior Client-Side Developer Interactive Drama Entertainment - 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/
