We had a soft launch of the project at Xmas leading up to this more public launch now. Thanks to everyone involved. Please keep checking back as we will be releasing more material in the months to come leading up to November which is the official 2nd phase of the project.
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Congrats BBC on a great project, will be using this material for my course as there is very little stuff out there that is so well documented. I love SearchWeb reminds me of a souped up webstalker.
Looking forward to seeing the new stuff, what a smart idea to release the source code AND the data.
Thanks for the kind words Fabio, we will be releasing more material as the year progresses so please keep checking back.
This is interesting as it’s quite a different BBC audience project no? Normally you don’t get to see the source code and data as audience “interactors”. What other things are you releasing?
Thanks for the kind words Sophia.
We have a number of things in the pipeline including some news visualisations and hopefully some work with the archive of the BBC radio program In Our Time.
A number of these new projects will be released up until November so keep an eye on the site.
this looks really great – well done and thanks for sharing
we’ll certainly be using material on our course and pushing students to get involved – I’ve linked to it from our site kcdigitalarts.com/?p=3197
so useful for us in so many ways – looking forward to further developments
Mark thanks for dropping by, and feel free to distribute the link and materials to whomsoever you please. Feedback from how you get on would be really useful.
Mark thanks for the comment, the blog entry looks great. We’ll be releasing a new stet of visualisations up to our second phase of the project in November, so keep checking back between now and then.
If you use any of the examples please let us know how you get on and we can publish them on the web site.
cheers
tom
Just dropping by as saw this project at the Media Festival Arts at the Roundhouse. Been poking around the projects and the code and will be using some of this stuff in my teaching if this is ok.
Very nice project well done BBC, exactly the kind of offering you should be promoting in terms of your digital content. Educational and experimental.
John please do! That’s the whole point of the project, more material to come soon so please keep visiting.
Student here from RMIT doing architecture and saw this from info aesthetics. We’ve been showing some of the viz pieces in seminars. So important to get the code to extend these projects of thanks very much for newsglobe and the music one (sorry forgot it’s name!)
Kate and John thanks for this,
please send any screen grabs of material you have made to me at:
tom[dot]corby[at]wmin[dot]ac[dot]uk
many thanks
tom
Greetings from the US and thanks for the examples people, I’ve been cross referencing some of this stuff with the tutorials on processing sites. Really useful to have actionscript versions to take apart.
Looking fowarwd to seeing some more.
Hi Josh, yes that’s really interesting, we did look at processing as a possibility but felt that we’d just be repeating work that was already out there. Flash is open source as well now and many students and courses use it, so we plumped for it.
The learning resources are a welcome addition to this kind of project. Puts things in a broader picture and helps you make connections between the tech and stuff that came before.
Thanks Philip that’s what they are designed to do, to give a bigger picture and situate the technological development in a wider history.
Hello, I’m asking a question. First can we use the code here to develop our own works. Also, can you host the works if we do it?
Also, think a great project, we were looking at in at our lecture the other day at University of Creative Arts – used to be KIAD.
Kent_stued, yes please use the material we’ve provided, make sure you read the license material and rights though. At the moment we can’t directly host your work but we can put up screen shots if you send them to us. We’re really interested in seeing what you do with the material.
Thanks Tom!!
Hi DataArt people!
saw this project at the Open Data picnic in Holland last week. Good Lucks with all your works and will come back to see how you prorgess!
Bojan thanks, another fan!
please let us know if you do anything with the material Good to see the project has reaced Holland.
Hello from the franhofer institute, we would like show some of this work on a seminar on visualisation. Do I need to ask special permissions?
many thanks
Neily
Neilly
yes of course please show the material, please also point people in this direction afterwards so they can leave us a message on the blog. We’re interested in your feedback and thoughts on the project.
Hello Tom I teach an information design course. Just want to pass on thanks as this material has proved very useful as a one-stop resource for our students. Looking forward to seeing more.
Thanks Frank, we are due to release more material soon so please keep checking back and spread the word.
Just droppin in to say hola, thank you for the visualisations. I like very much searching visualisation as it produces very delicate structures and is also useful. So yes, it is beautiful and sensible!
IT would be good to ahve the code application if this can be released. I realise sometimes to complicated though. I will look at the music network project music flares.
thank you
este
Estafani, hello, we do plan to release more material of this nature soon so please keep checking back and keep an eye on our facebook presence.
Looking forward to seeing some more on this project. Cany you give a little hint on what’s in the pipeline?
Phil, we’ve got things in the immediate pipeline for release. Just making a few last minute checks. We’re looking at releasing some more news analysis tools