bbc prototype online catalogue available

The BBC’s archive catalogue is now available online.

As previously mentioned this is a prototype that has been created using one of the bright new shiny tools of the web-o-sphere – Rails on Ruby.

It provides plenty of ways to connect into it (RSS, RDF, FOAF) with the terms of use allowing non-commercial reuse – enabling those with the skill and passion to create new applications using the archive data.

For a quick overview read Project Director Tom Loosemore’s intro.