Guardian Tech Weekly Podcast: In the BBC Archive

Synopsis: This 18 August 2010 edition of The Guardian’s weekly Tech Podcast is dedicated to the unique and vast BBC Archive - home to a treasure trove of audio, video, programme material, props, scores, letters ... the life of the BBC, on file.

As the audio and video archive at Windmill Road is being packed up and rehomed in a purpose-built centre in Perivale, West London, Jemima Kiss meets BBC research and development engineer Richard Wright. He’s tasked with digitising more than one million hours of programmes, explaining how the process has been broken down to speed up the job and how open standards are being used. We tour the collection with archivist Adrian Williams, who cares for priceless session recordings and news reports dating back to the 1930s. He explains how some of the broadcast equipment worked - as well as the new setup for archiving programmes. And we meet Roly Keating - the strategic thinker who has had to untangle the thorny issue of rights which will unlock the archive for the public, for education and even for commercial use. He outlines the BBC’s Genome project, which will publish online a digitised copy of the BBC’s programme information and schedules from the Radio Times - right back to the 1920s.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2010
Year of production: 2010
Subjects: Information technology; Librarianship; Technology
Keywords: archives; digitisation projects; BBC Archive

URI: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/audio/2010/aug/18/bbc-archive-roly-keating-windmill-road
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