[okfn-discuss] Goodbye OMDb?

Wed Feb 20 14:58:27 UTC 2013

Cool! Might it be worth me getting in touch with the people behind the
project (who I know from several years ago)? Not sure how serious the data
dump will be, but might even fit in datahub.io. ;-)

2013/2/20 Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>

> I'd be up for archiving this!
>
> This also takes me back in the OKF time machine to this post from
> 2006: http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2006-April/005274.html
> :-)
>
> Rufus
>
> 2013/2/18 Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>:
> > As some of you will know, the OMDb was an openly licensed database of
> > information about films (a bit like the Internet Movie Database).
> >
> > I've just received an email which says that it looks like it will be
> > stopping (see below). I wonder whether it might be worth trying to get
> hold
> > of a dump of the database before it disappears?
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Moviepilot <keineantwortadresse at moviepilot.de>
> > Date: 2013/2/18
> > Subject: Abschied von der OMDb
> > To: jonathan.gray at okfn.org
> >
> > Liebe Nutzerin, lieber Nutzer der OMDb,
> >
> > bedauerlicherweise müssen wir dir mitteilen, dass unsere alte
> Filmdatenbank
> > Open Media Database (OMDb) bis voraussichtlich Ende Februar 2013
> > abgeschaltet wird.
> >
> > Wenn du Filme oder Serien auf moviepilot.de vermisst und die OMDb
> bisher für
> > diesen Zweck genutzt hast, dann wende dich in Zukunft bitte an folgende
> > E-Mailadresse: filme at moviepilot.com.
> >
> > Bei weiteren Fragen oder Feedback erreichst du uns unter
> > support at moviepilot.com.
> >
> > Vielen herzlichen Dank für deine treue und fleißige Mitarbeit über all
> die
> > Jahre!
> >
> > Dein moviepilot-Team
> >
> >
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