The BBC has been keeping a vast catalogue of information about all the programmes it has put out for more that fifty years. It has been maintained all this time by a “crack team of librarians” and has so far been for internal BBC use only. Now, with the help of the BBC Backstage project (use our stuff to build your stuff) it could soon be useable for anyone on the ‘net and hopefully hackable for all of us geeks. Matt Biddulph is working on this for the BBC and gives us a sneak peek. Take a look at some of his screenshots, the breadth and detail of the information is vast.

This is awesome. I’d love to get a poke around that place.

This is great so far. I got this as a proof about two years ago when I was still working at Waterstones. It’s a translation of the original russian and is set in 19th Century Moscow. “Erast Fandorin” a criminal investigator for the Moscow police is the hero and when he sets out to investigate a simple suicide all is not what it first seems…

Update: Finished it already, that was quite fast for me. The ending is quite a shock and leave me wanting to read more of Erast’s investigations.