Round up Thursday 19 August 2010
Apparently it's archive week at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ and there are blog posts all over the ´óÏó´«Ã½ and an excellent to mark this auspicious occasion. In case you missed them (and there are a couple more to come before the end of the week) here they are in full:
- Project manager Helen Papadopoulos blogs on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Genome which will "bring the broadcast history of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ to life". Genome involves creating of an online catalogue of every ´óÏó´«Ã½ programme ever broadcast and it starts by scanning every issue of the Radio Times.
- Roly Keating, the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Director of Archive Content, introduces the latest online archive collection featuring British novelists in their own words and goes on to talk about the importance of putting historically important material online.
- As this one's on the Internet blog you will have probably seen it already: Adrian Williams, Digitisation Group Manager, blogs on the huge collection of items in the ´óÏó´«Ã½ archive at Windmill Road.
- Richard Wright from ´óÏó´«Ã½ Research & Development describes the work of ´óÏó´«Ã½ R&D and its partners in preserving and maintaining historical broadcasting assets.
- You can also see a short film on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ YouTube Channel which takes you on .
Update: 20th August: see also Peter Skinner's post "A New Home For the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Archive" on the About The ´óÏó´«Ã½ blog (NR).
has not only been making some salient points on this blog he's also been busy on his own blog, most recently responding to ´óÏó´«Ã½ online boss Erik Hugger's post HTML5, open standards, and the ´óÏó´«Ã½. It's worth reading in full.
And nevali's is a nice follow up to Meet the Green Button! New Developments on Freeview+ and Freeview+HD: Trailer Booking which featured on the R&D blog (and I missed cross-posting it because I was on holiday).
Max Gadney from ´óÏó´«Ã½ multiplatform introduced the , a juxtapostion of historical data with stuff you know based on your location. Matt Jones from BERG, the people who created it, explains all on the . Go have .
Paul Murphy is the Editor of the Internet blog. Before you ask this is the info I have about the image from the archive:
"´óÏó´«Ã½ News Editing 01/01/1998 ´óÏó´«Ã½, ´óÏó´«Ã½ News Editing, News VT Tape Transfer in ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV Centre London. Beta Video Recorders."
Comment number 1.
At 24th Aug 2010, John99 wrote:Paul,
Broken link: you quote "Erik Hugger's post HTML5, open standards, and the ´óÏó´«Ã½." but it appears the link needs editing from /blogs/bbcinternet/2010/08/html5_open_standards_and_the_b.html%3Cbr%20/%3E [ I guess a line break sneaked in] to corrected
HTML5, open standards, and the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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Comment number 2.
At 24th Aug 2010, Paul Murphy wrote:Hi John99
Thanks for that. Like you say a line break snuck in and it wasn't spotted. Best wishes, Paul
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