[pdb-discuss] [Fwd: A bit of BBC data]

Mon Feb 19 16:50:21 UTC 2007

Michael Holloway wrote:
> Hey
> 
> I'd like to blog on this development in the PD-Burn project, so pls 
> clarify the below:
> 
> 1. BBC supplied you with a database (of what - afaik only small amounts 
> of their catalogue would be PD within the parameters of this project?)

1. The BBC Archives have a bunch of 'grams' catalogue *data* which 
includes, in particular, listings of lots of old recordings (78s etc). 
This is a large catalogue coming in with well over a million items and 
1.8GB in size.

2. They have supplied us with pretty much all of this data. For the 
present this is just so we can look at it and analyze it -- with the 
exact rights status of this data has not been determined.

> 2. BBC supplied you with a manual to actually make sense of the data.

Yes they have. This is very useful as the format is, to say the least, 
rather obscure. I know that Nathan has already been having a go at it 
and I've now got the full manual (weighing in at a hefty 3MB and 57MB 
each -- which is why I haven't yet posted it online).

> Feel free to inform further so my post can be more enlightening...

Hope that helped.

~rufus