The Web As a Content Management System on the BBC Music Beta
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Nicholas Humfrey and Patrick Sinclair Software Engineers, BBC Audio and Music Interactive The Web as a Content Management System on the BBC Music Beta The BBC has a long and distinguished track record of bringing music to new audiences. From shows like: Later with Jools Holland Text only Help Search Explore the BBC Home What's On Venues Booking Broadcasts About Take Part Share Listen online BBC Proms 2009 Radio 3 Live The biggest ever Proms season starts on Friday 17 July and runs until 2009 Calendar Saturday 12 September. S M T W T F S 76 concerts at the Royal Albert Hall & 19 chamber recitals at Cadogan Hall. July 17 18 Find out What's On this year. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 August Welcome to the Proms What's On 1 Everything you need to 100 concerts! 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 know: What are the 76 Proms at the Royal 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 BBC Proms? When did Albert Hall and 19 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 they begin? Where is chamber concerts at the Royal Albert Hall? Cadogan Hall. Plus 5 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 With video guides. Proms in the Park. 30 31 September 1 2 3 4 5 Inspire 2009 April Preview Concerts 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 The 2009 BBC Proms Four special concerts Inspire Young to mark the launch of See also Composers' BBC Proms 2009, with Competition is now a chance to hear about open for entries! this year's Proms from On Radio 3 Director Roger Wright. Lunchtime Concert to the BBC Proms Afternoon on 3 Performance on 3 Proms Plus Proms Guide 2009 On TV and Radio Come along to the pre- The 2009 Proms Guide Classical listings concert Proms Plus is now on sale from all events, aimed at giving good bookshops and BBC Four you extra information online retailers. Non- about the music and print versions are also Online musicians. available. BBC Music website Every Prom on Radio 3 Family Events Hear every Prom live Join us at one of the on BBC Radio 3. 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Past Events RSS How to listen Mobile Interactive TV © MMIX Contact Radio 1 BBC Help About the BBC Messageboards Accessibility Help Contact Us The BBC is not responsible for the BBC Switch Jobs Terms of Use content of external internet sites. Advertise With Us Privacy & Cookies About a month ago we launched the new BBC Music Beta. The aim of the site is to provide a comprehensive guide to all this fantastic music content available across the BBC. Text only Help Search Explore The BBC BBC Music Artists Bat for Lashes Bat for Lashes Bat for Lashes is a performance name for the person Natasha Khan. Now On The BBC Bat For Lashes on Later... Watch a preview of Bat For Lashes performing Sleep Alone on Later With Jools Holland. Latest News Stories Played By NEWS FROM THE BBC Since December 2008 Batwoman's back Thu 9 Apr 2009 09:07 Bat For Lashes, aka Natasha Khan, reveals her love of David Attenborough Nemone BBC 6 Music Glittering return 100% InTue particular, 31 Mar 2009 09:34 we are publishing a page for EVERY artist where we can highlightMusic, entertainment, and games link and to guests their wth activitiesBat For Lashes on is back the with BBC. her 80s-inspired second album Nemone Steve Lamacq Latest Blog Posts BBC 6 Music BLOGS FROM THE BBC 81% New and classic tracks from established artists, young groups and unsigned bands Tell us what you make of this lot... Fri 3 Apr 2009 13:51 Music review on Monday. This week's offerings are: Doves album - Kingdom Of Rust... Zane Lowe Louisa Compton BBC Radio 1 81% Biography The best new music shoved in your ears Shaun Keaveny Bat for Lashes is the pseudonym of English musician Natasha Khan (born 25 October 1979), a BBC 6 Music Brighton-based songwriter. 72% Irreverent music lover Shaun serves up music, Read more at Wikipedia... features and entertainment Chris Hawkins This entry is from Wikipedia, the user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been BBC 6 Music reviewed by professional editors and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. If you find 60% the biography content factually incorrect, defamatory or highly offensive you can edit this article at Join Chris for regular great music and a new Wikipedia. Find out more about our use of this data . documentary on every show Edith Bowman BBC Reviews BBC Radio 1 Two Suns 2009 59% Interactive entertainment with movie guests REVIEWED BY SOPHIE BRUCE This highly anticipated album contains as many misses as it does hits. Ken Bruce BBC Radio 2 58% Fur And Gold 2006 The best in music every weekday with Ken Bruce, with live sessions REVIEWED BY DAN TALLIS Natasha sings of forbidden desire, sinister dreams and magical kingdoms. Information displayed about artists played on BBC programmes is incomplete at present. Find out more about this artist play count information. More Bat for Lashes Releases » Played On Since December 2008 BBC 6 Music 100% BBC Radio 1 53% BBC Radio 2 48% Information displayed about artists played on BBC radio networks is incomplete at present. Find out more about this artist play count information. Members Caroline Weeks Information about group members comes from MusicBrainz. You can add or edit information about Bat for Lashes at musicbrainz.org. Find out more about our use of this data . Links Official homepage at batforlashes.com Wikipedia article on Bat for Lashes MySpace at myspace.com/batforlashes MusicBrainz entry on Bat for Lashes Links come from MusicBrainz. You can add or edit information about Bat for Lashes at musicbrainz.org. Find out more about our use of this data. © MMIX Music Home BBC Help About the BBC Frequently Asked Questions Accessibility Help Contact Us The BBC is not responsible for the Developers Jobs Terms of Use content of external internet sites. Privacy & Cookies Built upon Open Data Repositories This is built using existing, open data repositories: MusicBrainz and Wikipedia. Structured data MusicBrainz is basically an editable database for the music domain. It covers artists, releases, tracks and record labels. For example, this is the form for adding a new release - as you can see, the data is very well structured. Edits are peer-reviewed All edits to MusicBrainz are peer-reviewed: users can vote against an edit if they disagree with it. So the quality of the data is generally high, especially around popular artists where many fans keep a close eye on new edits. Active user community musicbrainz community size/activity There’s an incredibly active user community, very busy adding new data to the site. These are the number of edits individual users have entered in the last week - one user alone, “MeinDummy” has contributed nearly 3000 edits Web scale identifiers* 10000730-525f-4ed5-aaa8-92888f060f5f musicbrainz.org/artist/:guid www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/:guid * http://bit.ly/ytB6d A curious feature of MusicBrainz is their use of these rather long, opaque identifiers for their resources For example, an artist page in musicbrainz is musicbrainz.org/artist/:guid And we’re reusing these identifiers on our site, so the artist profile on BBC is: www.bbc.co.uk/ music/artists/:guid This what people refer to “Web scale identifiers” - the way DBPedia uses Wikipedia article titles is the best example of this.