Guardian Tech Weekly Podcast: Creating a Digital Public Space

Synopsis: In the 28 September 2011 edition of The Guardian’s weekly Tech Podcast Jemima Kiss examines plans for a digital public space - a part of the internet that could grant worldwide access and create links between museums, archives and libraries, allowing cultural items to be viewed, researched and remixed. Jemima talks to Richard Ranft of the British Library and Francesca Franchi of the Royal Opera House about the items and artefacts from their archives that a digital public space could open up to the public, and how the reach of both organisations can be dramatically extended to a worldwide audience. Bill Thompson, head of partnerships at the BBC’s archive (also of the Digital Planet and Click programmes) explains how the corporation could help build what is needed, and how it could work. And Jill Cousins of europeana.eu discusses how a similar project that is funded by the European Commission works, and how it has now developed into a full service. (33 minutes)
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2011
Year of production: 2011
Subjects: Information technology; Librarianship; Technology
Keywords: archives; digital information; information services; Internet; online databases; technological innovation; digitisation projects; online services; Digital public space

URI: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/audio/2011/sep/28/tech-weekly-digital-public-space-audio
Price: free
Delivery: Streamed/Download

Name: Guardian Tech Podcasts
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