Tagged with: BBC Archive
Posts (18)
The future of searching the past: Transitioning from BBC Redux to Archive Search
Mary McCarthy
Senior Product Manager
Redux recorded and stored all of our broadcast programmes for research and archive uses. Now Archive Search is the place to go to find archive content.
Hacking the future
Bill Thompson
Head of Future Value Research
Next year is the BBC's centenary and a hackday asked teams to consider how we could make the best use of our rich history and the material in the BBC's extensive archive to engage future generations, with a view to shaping the next hundred years.
Music Memories and Memory Radio
Jake Berger
Executive Product Manager, BBC Archive Development
Jake Berger gives an update on the project to help people with dementia to reconnect with their most powerful memories.
Taking BBC VR to new audiences - in libraries
Zillah Watson, Dinah Lammiman
BBC VR Hub team
A new partnership for the BBC virtual reality team.
BBC Music Memories
Jake Berger
Executive Product Manager, BBC Archive Development
Jake Berger explains how music is being used to help memory recall for people with dementia.
Taking to the skies - in VR
Zillah Watson, Dinah Lammiman
BBC VR Hub team
The VR team describe their latest experience - set during the 1943 Berlin Blitz.
Building the Computer Literacy Project archive
Andy Armstrong
Software Engineer, BBC Archive Development
Andy Armstrong gives an insight into how he built an archive of the BBC's home computing TV programmes and software from the 1980s.
Archiving the BBC’s website and social media output
Carl Davies
Service Development and Delivery Manager
The BBC tries to maintain and keep older pages online for the public to access for as a long as possible (dependant on technology, editorial or copyright reasons). It’s the BBC Archives responsibility to archive copies offline and preserve them.
Developing digital experiences to help dementia sufferers
Laura Harrison
Producer, BBC Connected Studios
A workshop to investigate whether the BBC Archive can be used to help stimulate memory in people living with dementia. The workshop provided essential insight which was incorporated in their development of ideas for new digital experiences.
Labelling BBC Online's archived websites
Neil McIntosh
Managing Editor, BBC Online
The BBC cares for its online archive, maintaining access to years of content. But maintaining access to the archive is different to maintaining the content itself, which means much of the archive is frozen in time: we no longer update it. In those cases, we’ve added a clear label to the page.
