[okfn-discuss] Goodbye OMDb?

Wed Feb 20 16:40:11 UTC 2013

I've not followed them, but Filmaster seemed promising a few years
ago, Jonathan mentioned at
http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2009-May/006644.html

http://filmaster.com/license/
http://filmaster.com/cooperation/ (but link to development broken)

http://filmaster.org/ (API)
http://filmaster.tv/ (business)

cc'd their general address in case they're also interested in the OMDB
data and/or letting us know what they're up to wrt open data and such.

Mike

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 6:58 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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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