Sunday, December 13, 2009

BBC and British Library to take joint approach to building digital archive

"The BBC and the British Library are collaborating on a digital technology project to open up the institutions' archives, with the aim of giving the public greater online access to a vast cultural treasure trove.

Under a memorandum of understanding to be signed by the two organisations today, they will collaborate on the task of provising greater digital access to the British Library's archive of more than 150m items collected over the past 250 years, as well as nearly 1m hours of TV and radio output from the BBC, which has been broadcasting since 1922..."

All i can say is... fantastic!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Fantastic news