backstage.bbc.co.uk

Ben Metcalfe, Project Lead

ben.metcalfe@bbc.co.uk

d.construct, November 2005, Brighton

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Backstage.bbc.co.uk

What is backstage.bbc.co.uk? Introduction Examples of prototypes

Web2.0 @ BBC Demo of BBC Programme Catalogue

(alpha) Q&A

Introduction to backstage.bbc.co.uk

What is backstage.bbc.co.uk?

Developer network

Platform for us to share bbc.co.uk content with our users

Community of peer-developers

Robust licence for content re-use

Opportunity for our expert audience to connect with BBC and feedback into the creative process

Why are we doing this?

Part of a greater “Open BBC” push

Support creativity and innovation

Identify + showcase talent

Explore new opportunities outside our current project space Public service for the 21st

century!

What’s on offer?

BBC News + BBC Sport RSS feeds

Travel XML

Threads from BBC message boards

TV listings data

Weather data via Met Office (coming soon)

+ more to come

Live data in XML, RSS and Web2.0 formats:

What’s the deal?

Strictly non-commercial use

‘Remixing’ with other web services such as Yahoo!, Google, Flickr, etc is encouraged

Users retain their Intellectual Property (We retain the copyright over our content)

We showcase their work on backstage.bbc.co.uk for the world to see

Going forward

We want to work with the producers of successful prototypes to help them iterate further

Ultimately we want to implement compelling work back into the organisation - to benefit of our entire audience on bbc.co.uk

It’s possible because…

Available data: rights cleared and in formats people can remix (RSS, Web2.0, etc)

Passionate user-base (how much “love” does your service have?)

Support from the top

Prototype Showcase

Prototype Showcase

Local Knowledge (Dom Ramsey) MighTyV (Leo Lapworth/Leon

Brocard) BBC News Front Page Archive

(Matthew Somerville)

MighTyV.com

Competition winner

http://www.mightyv.com

Web2.0 @ BBC

Web2.0 @ BBC

Issues Read/Write web in a traditional Read-

Only environment! Rights – BBC doesn’t own all of “it’s”

data Surprising amount of data not in a

CMS

Web2.0 @ BBC

…but that is slow changing BBC does “get it” Rights holders are beginning to

appreciate alternative biz models We are slowly eeking out cool data

from the BBC’s repositories (eg Programme Catalogue)

BBC Programme Catalogue (alpha)

Health Warning!

Today’s demo is of the current in-development/alpha version with development skin/template.

Classed as an 'Experimental Prototype', with all consequences in terms of availability!

This project is not about releasing any programmes (think IMDB not Mininova!)

The DB is not a complete record of all BBC's programmes (though it is pretty awesome).

Launch date will be early next year, as an experimental prototype

We owe the BBC's librarians a huge debt for decades worth of unsung effort

BBC Programme Catalogue

Rich relational database of most BBC programmes, particularly from 1980+

Ruby-On-Rails rapid prototyping Keen to off Web2.0 offering along side

the Web1.0 Project credit to Matt Bidduplh & Ben

Hammersley (+ the BBC librarians!)

FIN!

+ benmetcalfe.com/blog

Q&A

http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/misc/dconstruct.ppt