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BBC Programme Identifier

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All PIDs consist of a lower-case letter, followed by seven or more other characters which may be lower case letters, or digits. Vowels (a, e, i, o, u) are not used, so that offensive words cannot be generated inadvertently. The first letter "b" means the
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database, (PIPs). An "s" is used internally, for PIDs identifying partners and suppliers. Other sources, denoted by different opening letters, could potentially be introduced.
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PIDs have been created retrospectively, for some programmes from the pre-digital era. An example, in the "p" range, is the PID for the 1956
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for a television or radio programme brand, a season or series, or an individual episode, used by the
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while the PID for the individual episode of that show first broadcast on 8 July 2014 is
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programmes were given eleven-character PIDs, starting with "w"; an example is
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BBC Programmes and Music on the Linking Open Data Cloud
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Most PIDs have eight characters, but in the past, some
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2004 post explaining thinking behind BBC URL structure
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media relating to programmes, on social sites such as
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persistent
unique identifier
BBC
iPlayer
content reference identifier
Red Bee
Programme Information Pages
The Life Scientific
URL
Desert Island Discs
Ada Cherry Kearton
World Service
machine tag
Flickr
Wikidata


"BBC - Radio Labs: Machine tagging the BBC"
BBC
"BBC - Commissioning Radio - Glossary"
BBC Online
"BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific - Available now"
BBC Online
"BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Zoe Shipton"
BBC Online


"BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Ada Cherry Kearton"
BBC Online
"BBC World Service - The World Today, 02/06/2008"

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