Build your own
/programmes
Jonathan Tweed, BBC

The plan
• A bit about the site
• What we’ve brought

bbc.co.uk/programmes
• A permanent, findable
home on the web for all
BBC programmes
• Data since last May for
TV, September for Radio
• Branded versions
• Roughly 160,000 pages

bbc.co.uk/programmes
• A permanent, findable
home on the web for all
BBC programmes
• Data since last May for
TV, September for Radio
• Branded versions
• Roughly 160,000 pages

bbc.co.uk/programmes
• A permanent, findable
home on the web for all
BBC programmes
• Data since last May for
TV, September for Radio
• Branded versions
• Roughly 160,000 pages

Some Numbers
Type Total Per month
Brands 2,000 100
Series 3,000 200
Episodes 130,000 12,000
Versions 135,000 13,000
Broadcasts 435,000 40,000
OnDemands 260,000 20,000
Changes 3,000,000 130,000

The future
• New branded sites
• Catalogue
• Tracklists
• Image galleries
• Improved cast and crew

What we’ve brought
• Your own /programmes

The bits
• PIPs
• PIT
• Dynpub
• Data model

Brand
Series Promotion
Episode
Segment
Version Segment
Event
Broadcast OnDemand
Service

For those familiar with
TV-Anytime
Programmes TVA
Brand GroupInformation[@type='show']
Series GroupInformation[@type='series']
Episode GroupInformation[@type='programConcept']
Version ProgramInformation
Broadcast ScheduleEvent
OnDemand OnDemandProgram

PIPs
• Backend metadata store with REST API
• ROA - it’s all about the resources
• Writes are a mix of TVA and PIPs XML
• Reads are PIPs XML
• Also used by iPlayer and Search (for Topics)
• Perl using Catalyst and DBIx::Class

Demo

PIT
• PIPs metadata editor
• Used by production teams in TV and Radio
• Tidy up core data
• Add extra bits such as images, promotions
• Ruby on Rails

Demo

Dynpub
• Front end dynamic publishing
• Beautiful URLs
• Allows programme and channel branding
• “Perl on Rails”

Demo

What can I do?
• Your own Programmes stack
• You can read
• You can write
• TVA for core data
• PIPs XML for promotions and segments

A Facebook application

A filesystem

iPlayer + YouTube

iGoogle

WiiPlayer

Segmentation

9 months of radio
playout data as
segments

Radio Segments
• Four networks
• Radio 1
• Radio 2
• 1Xtra
• 6music

Radio Segments
• MusicBrainz Artist IDs
• Titles
• Offsets
• Durations

Demo

Tell me again
• Your own Programmes stack
• You can write
• We have segments
• You can use /programmes or make your
front end

Questions