Open Media Content
It’s been a while since the BBC opened their back catalogue for members of Jo Public to play with and Backstage has been very successful. So you wonder why no other members of the “old” media world have decided to do the same thing?
Well this week the Guardian announced Open Platform at an event at King’s Place, London.
Their intention with Open Platform is to allow external partners to build applications based around the Guardian’s content. Much the same way the BBC has done. Requests are sent to the Guardian servers and the response returned in either XML, JSON or ATOM format.
They have also developed a set of client libraries so that you can build up your requests using Ruby, Python, PHP or Java.
The Open Platform is composed of two distinct areas, the Content API and the Data Store. The Content API is the mechanism to retrieve the data from the servers. The Data Store is their repository of, journalist vetted, data. Articles for you to pull.
I’m not sure how useful this will be, at the end of the day you’re only pulling an XML feed from the Guardian, but hopefully this will expand over coming month and I expect we’ll see some clever and innovative uses for the data being produced by the community.
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