91Èȱ¬ Backstage eBook Retrospective
After five great years the servers are finally powering down on the inspiring project that was .Ìý As a way to look back on the journey we commisioned to create an of the whole project.
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The 91Èȱ¬ Backstage ebook- a celebration of five years of this groundbreaking project. Design by Nicola Rowlands
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Suw, editor Jim McClennan and the designer have put together an amazing piece of work which is an excellent introduction to the Backstage phenomena, and also serves as a fitting tribute to the efforts of the many staff and friends of the project over the last half decade.
Hat tip to all our colleagues who worked on this book and the project long term, not least Brendan Crowther and most recently, and down the years such luminaries as Jem Stone, Ben Metcalfe, Tom Loosemore, Matt locke, Matt Cashmore, Rain Ashford and many more.
The data sets and license for Backstage remain active and are being migrated into a centrally managed public facing developer documentation area- it's a transition from experimental to "business as usual" that represents the maturation of the Backstage ideal.Ìý The work of Backstage will live on, and on this blog we welcome feedback on the five years of the project, and on developments in this area in the future.Ìý The 91Èȱ¬ Internet Blog will also be available for discussion of the 91Èȱ¬'s open data policy.
UPDATE:
Jemima Kiss has a on the about the end of Backstage which includes quotes from an interview with Ian and Adrian Woolard.
Comment number 1.
At 5th Jan 2011, paulmorriss wrote:I can't access the pdf. You didn't power down the server with the pdf on it did you? (backstage.bbc.co.uk works OK)
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Comment number 2.
At 5th Jan 2011, Ant Miller wrote:Hi, we did have a little bit of an issue with the server load, so we have moved the pdfs. If you reload you'll find 5 new links for the downloads and these point to a more suitable host.
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