Exposing the Past of BBC 2.0

One follow-up to my post yesterday about the complete catalogue online, which includes:

• Details of 946,614 BBC radio & TV programmes, dating back 75 years
• 503,193 subject categories, from Pig Farming to Pirate Radio
• 1,182,424 contributors, from Bruce Forsyth to Imelda Marcos
This is a gigantic searchable database - there aren't any programmes themselves online. Writing about it yesterday, project director Tom Loosemore's job title: "Project Director, BBC 2.0″. It's a terrific resource and, on a quick try, works well. For example, very hot political news in the UK at the moment) and you'll get a page with links to everything about him that the BBC has ever broadcast. The page also links to search results about him Wikipedia entry. And as Tom Loosemore said, you can Looks like the database was developed with DiggThis | NevilleHobson.com blog which focuses on business communication and technology.

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