Reaching your audience
URIplay offers a way to extend the distribution of your content. Information about the items you produce is included next to data about YouTube and a wide range of podcasts, alongside contextual data from Wikipedia and other databases.
An API the easy way
Content included in URIplay is automatically provided in a range of alternative formats:
- In RSS with podcast and Media RSS tags, or in RDF (we love linked data)
- As lists of content, single items, or deep nested structures
- Filtered by how it can be used—downloadable vs. embeddable vs. linkable
You can provide this interface using our open source Java software (download the source code), or via a managed service on uriplay.org
Ways to integrate and get involved
- Indexing your content by URI: if you provide a web service that indexes additional sources of data by URI and in a standard format, we'll pass relevant queries onto your server and aggregate the results from all similar services. Our Java software can help render a URI-based lookup, as can most general web app frameworks.
- Contributing code: we're open to submissions that allow us to integrate with new sources of data. Where possible we'll use this in the uriplay.org service.
- Commissioning a custom adaptor: members of the team are available to write custom adaptors at cost.
The BBC has been supporting the URIplay project, and already implements the first of these options, using the URIplay software.
Find out more about how to get involved
