Originally Posted by Tony
Guys,
Fantastic idea!
I've been wondering about something on similar lines, though it sruck me what a good idea it might be if schedule data could be anonymously submitted by anyone, thereby creating a beautiful legal firewall by creating strong "plausible deniability" about the source of the information... no one person would be creating it, and it wouldn't come from any one source.
The guys building the slices and running the emulator wouldn't need to have any idea at all where it came from, in fact. They could safely believe someone was typing it all out of "The Listener"... maybe someone will be!
How about creating a structure whereby multiple anonymous submissions can be made, and some form of AI is used to extact and merge the best data from various submissions?
It'd become possible then to download data from the site, tweek it, and upload modifications. This way, individual community members could build "modules" on their own systems to do things like IMDB lookups, built on whatever platform they're comfortable with, then share the improved data with everyone else.
And of course, since there are multiple data sources there would be good redundancy when a particular source falls over for whatever reason.
Cheers,
Tony