BBC World Service News Store
Licence: Strictly for Non-Commercial Use under the Backstage Licence. Offered to Backstage with permission of BBC World Service.
Description: A copy of all the news stories which make up the World Service's website
Status: Unstable
Type: XML REST API
This is a growing data store of all the language sites on the World Service. Every story is stored in ATOM and made available with its full text in this database store. Currently all the data is stored in a XMLDB which you can access via its REST interface. Only BBC Persian.com is currently available, but other languages will follow in the near future.
http://mammoth.welcomebackstage.com/exist/rest/ws - Starting point for the World Service store
Examples
http://mammoth.welcomebackstage.com/exist/rest/ws/persian/story/2008/12 - Every story from December 2008
http://mammoth.welcomebackstage.com/exist/rest/ws/persian/story/2008/12/... - A story about the queens speech in ATOM
http://mammoth.welcomebackstage.com/exist/rest/ws/persian/story/2009/01/... - A story about a earthquake
http://mammoth.welcomebackstage.com/exist/rest/ws/persian/cluster/2009/0... - A editorial cluster of stories around the term in-depth