Interesting Stuff 2008-07-23
If the question on your lips is "In which audio formats can I play Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ radio stations?", you may find this iPlayer Help page helpful: .
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Exciting archive news (and if you think that's an oxymoron, shame on you and read on): DG Mark Thompson tells us that former Controller of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ2, Roly Keating is to become the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's first Director of Archive Content "with responsibility for maximising public access to the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's invaluable archive of television, radio and multimedia content." You can find out more about the archive in a series of videos called Meet The Experts, kicked off by Adam Lee:
We've got about 4 million physical items for TV and radio. That's equivalent to 600,000 hours of TV content and about 350,000 hours of radio. So we're getting very close now to a million hours of material. We also now have a New Media archive, which is keeping a record of the content that goes out on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's websites. We also have large sheet-music collections, we have commercial music collections. We have press cuttings going back 40 years as well. So it's a very large-scale operation.
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, Fraser Murrell explains how he's integrated Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ feeds for :
I wanted a quick loading simple homepage for my browser, which included the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ headlines and weather. Long gone are the days of screen scraping the bbc news pages and now luckily we have access to some nice feeds!
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Our radar has only just picked up the on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Live Update:
I'd love to see some video in there as well but hey... it's still an early beta and I'm sure video is on their radar. Being a beta application, I have to point out that there are still some bugs in the application but that's exactly what public betas are for, so you can give feedback...
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And finally, if you're short of smileys and GIFs of all descriptions, there's a surfeit over at the Points Of View Message Boards as the users say goodbye to community editor Peta.
Alan Connor is co-editor, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Internet Blog.
Comment number 1.
At 24th Jul 2008, dennisjunior1 wrote:All interesting stuff....
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At 13th Jun 2009, U14033173 wrote:I really like the archive of television, radio and multimedia content that you guys have great work thank you..
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