R&D BBC MMXIII

BBC R&D Datasets

Jana Eggink

BBC R&D

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R&D BBC MMXIII

• Set up in 2007, continually records BBC TV and radio channels

• Plus some archive programmes

• For research purposes and broadcast compliance checking

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Redux

• B. Butterworth: “History of the 'BBC Redux' project”, BBC Internet Blog, http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/10/history_of_the_bbc_redux_proje.html

BBC Redux

R&D BBC MMXIII

• Epg information

• Title, date, channel, short synopsis, genre

• Infax

• Description

• People (production and actors/presentors)

• Taxonomy (LONCLASS, TELCLASS) incl. genre

• Free textual timeline description, mainly for factual

• Pips

• Genre, people and synopsis

• Links into dbpedia

• Used for bbc.co.uk/programmes

• Subtitles

• Time aligned for display

• Speaker change indication

Metadata

R&D BBC MMXIII

20090205_220000_bbcfour_all_in_a_day_the_city

Synopsis: Film about the 5th September 1973 in the city of Sheffield. Var s thru out of Sheffield incl. cathedral,fire station, market, abbatoir, disco, city council meeting & police at work.

Timeline: Sheffield: cathedral seq Communion service with cu of Communion cup (4'54"-5'04") choir boys singing (36'13"-36'32") (37'46"-38') fire station var s firemen's parade (3'09"-3'18") market var s shoppers buying meat & sausages (5'39"-6'26") abbatoir var s cattle, sheep & pigs in pens (2'51"-3'09") var s pigs into boiling water (5'04"-5'12") var s skins taken off pigs & sheep & insides removed (-5'39") disco @ Black Swan Pub var s go-go dancer & people watching (19'44"-20'43") city council meeting cu Mayor's chain & mace bearer puts on gloves (20'43"-20'56") h/ a s mace bearer & mayor enter council chamber (-21'15"), ...

Taxonomy: 171109 1 LO CHILDBIRTH 207566171109 2 LO BIRTH (OBSTETRICS) 207567171109 3 LO MIDWIFERY 20756893145 1 LO SHEFFIELD (YORKSHIRE) 19719104948 1 LO DAY IN THE LIFE DOCUMENTARIES (GENRE) 405297104948 2 LO DIARY STYLE DOCUMENTARIES (GENRE) 419997,

...

• In British Library Reading rooms (or with Redux account): http://bbcpilot.bl.uk/

INFAX

R&D BBC MMXIII

Infax at the British Library

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20090205_220000_bbcfour_all_in_a_day_the_city

Display subtitle: All in a Day: The City Documentary looking at a series of everyday events in Sheffield on 5th September 1973.

Medium Synopsis: Documentary looking at events in Sheffield on 5th September 1973. Steelworkers retire, babies are born, there are fashion shows, council meetings and policemen on the beat.

Long Synopsis: Documentary, without commentary, looking at events in Sheffield on 5th September 1973. Steelworkers retire, babies are born, there are fashion shows and council meetings, crashed lorries and policemen on the beat.

Genre: History / Factual

Format: Documentaries

PIPS

R&D BBC MMXIII

20100927_220000_bbcfour_the_savage_paul_gauguin_and

Display subtitle: The Savage: Paul Gauguin and the Construction of Paradise

Synopsis: Documentary which looks at the image of himself that Gauguin hoped to promote in his book Noa Noa, about his stay in Tahiti.

Format: Documentaries

dbpedia:

• Paul Gauguin, http://dbpedia.org/resource/Paul_Gauguin

• Post-Impressionism, http://dbpedia.org/resource/Post-Impressionism

PIPS – links into dbpedia

R&D BBC MMXIII

• TV One Week

• Snapshot of one randomly selected week (May 2008)

• BBC 1, 2, 3, and 4, excl. external

• Video plus full metadata, 406 programmes, 690 GB, 300 hours

• TV Archive

• Old (pre-Redux, ie pre 2007) programmes repeated

• Manually selected, wide range of genres

• Video plus of full metadata, 270 programmes, 521 GB, 227 hours

• 500 hours of Eastenders

• Video plus egp data and subtitles

Datasets

R&D BBC MMXIII

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• Radiotimes

• World service archive

• Elvis

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