The BBC Genome Project is an online searchable database of programme listings initially based upon the contents of the ''
Radio Times
''Radio Times'' (currently styled as ''RadioTimes'') is a British weekly listings magazine devoted to television and radio programme schedules, with other features such as interviews, film reviews and lifestyle items. Founded in May 1923 by J ...
'' from the first issue in 1923 to 2009.
Television listings from post-2009 can be accessed via the BBC Programmes site.
History
Prior
BBC Genome is not the first online searchable database. In April 2006, they gave the public access to Infax – their only electronic programme database at the time. It contained around 900,000 entries but not every programme ever broadcast, and it ceased operation in December 2007.
The front page of the website is still available to see via the
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, ...
. After Infax ceased, a message on the website said that it would be incorporating in the information into individual programme pages.
In 2012, Infax was replaced by the database Fabric but this is only for internal use within the BBC.
''Radio Times''
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'' of all BBC's programmes from 1923 to 2009 from an entire run of about 4,500 copies of the magazine.
They identified around five million programmes involving 8.5 million actors, presenters, writers and technical staff.
BBC Genome was released for public use on 15 October 2014.
The listings are as published in advance, and so do not include late changes or cancellations which were reflected on Infax. However, they do include huge numbers of early radio and television broadcasts, and "DJ shows" from
which were rarely kept officially, which were not listed on Infax (which also did not usually include repeats of archived programmes prior to 1976) because they were not in the BBC archives. The issues were scanned at
was then used to turn the text from the page into searchable text on the Genome database.