Talk:Potential memorandum of understanding and collaboration with BBC

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General discussion

Collaboration with the BBC is an obvious move; they are a not-for-profit organisation, and hold one of the UK's most significant archives. As noted, I'm already working with them (as will be several other WMUK members, as volunteers, at the event in January). Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 17:31, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Existing collaborations

The BBC are little involved in this. They host the site but the Public Catalogue Foundation do the content. Johnbod (talk) 18:15, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
  • Commons BBC voice project on Saturday, 18 January 2014. --RexxS (talk) 14:10, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
  • The BBC draws on Wikipedia content for its Wildlife Finder (e.g. [1]) and Musician (e.g. [2]) pages. (disclosure: I assisted with the former, some years ago, albeit not the Wikipedia part). They also use Wikipedia articles as a folksonomy of tag names in a World Service radio archive project, see [3] Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 17:36, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Possible projects

Proms

Good ideas here, but of those, the Proms is the one that grabs my immediate attention. As a concert series it gets a huge amount of attention. There is surely a great deal of content to be generated by documenting executants, conductors, orchestras, and particularly composers of new and recent works. Charles Matthews (talk) 13:42, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

In Our Time

As I understand it, there were once talks between the BBC and Wikipedia in relation to their programme 'In Our Time'. I don't know what the talks consisted of. In Our Time covers a topic each week with the host Melvyn Bragg and three or four expert guests. Quite often the topic would readily match up with an article name. Here's a link to their archive. Anyway, just thought I'd let you know. --85.210.2.35 15:21, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

I think they might be updating the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_In_Our_Time_programmes all of which is nicely linked. The whole archive is also available through the BBC (although not openly, as in CC, so as far as I know) Sjgknight (talk) 16:51, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Linked data

The BBC has significant technical capability around linked data, I don't have any immediate suggestions but I'd just note there might be interesting potential there Sjgknight (talk) 16:38, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

My contacts are in the team leading on this. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 17:31, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Radio Times archives = Genome

One thing that comes to mind is their "Genome" database. They have OCRd the programme listings from a full run of Radio Times magazines, into a searchable database. I've used it several times, to add information and references to Wikipedia articles. They can't make this publicly available, for rights reasons, but I'd like to see access granted to a number of Wikimedians, in the manner of access granted to HighBeam, as part of the Wikipedia Library project. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 17:28, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

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