Internal Infax Infax was the BBC's programme database, containing 966,244 BBC programmes dating back to 1938; however, this is not every programme ever broadcast. Since 1992, Infax has only been used as a stock control system. Infax catalogued all TV and selected radio until 2008, but was only used to catalogue news up until 1994. The Star catalogue was used to catalogue news from 1994 to 2008.
Strix/Cinegy From 1992, the BBC Northern Ireland Archive used Strix to catalogue factual, sport, current affairs, entertainment programmes and news output until March 2009. In an interview for
Ariel, Maggie Lydon (Head of Media Management) insists that only 'a very small amount' of information has not been transferred from Infax to Fabric. The front page of the website is still available to see via the Internet Archive. After it ceased, a message on the website said that it would be incorporating the information into individual programme pages. Infax was also incorporated into the
BBC Motion Gallery website (now
Getty Images). In mid 2014, a data protection issue was flagged and public access was disabled. , a version of the BBC programme catalogue is available to view exclusively in
British Library in the
St Pancras (
London) and
Boston Spa (
Yorkshire) reading rooms. 2.2 million searchable catalogue records and 225,000 programmes up to June 2012 are available to view.
Genome Project Logo BBC Genome Project is a digitised online searchable database of back issues of the
Radio Times from 1923 to 2009. The information in the database will be linked up with the video and audio files that the BBC have archived, and from this the BBC will be able to work out what is still missing from the archive. TV listings post-2009 can be accessed via the BBC Programmes site.
BBC Programme Index This database contains the BBC's TV and Radio listings from 1923 to the present day. The data is taken from two sources: information from
BBC iPlayer and
BBC Sounds pages (referred to as “Programme Information Platform or PIPs”) and data from
BBC Genome. There are millions of listings on the BBC's Programme Index. Some will link through to programmes you can watch and listen but most of the listings remain text-only. Listings contain at least a programme title, broadcast channel and transmission time, but some listings also contain programme summary and contributor details. ==See also==