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Title: Preservation of BBC Radio Collections


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Preservation of BBC Radio Collections
Adrian Williams
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Size of Archive
  • The BBC has one of the largest multi-media
    archives in the world
  • 1.5 million items of film and videotape
  • 750,000 radio recordings
  • 1.2 million commercial recordings
  • 4 million items of sheet music
  • 22 million newspaper cuttings
  • 550,000 document files
  • 20,000 rolls of microfilm
  • 500,000 phonetic pronunciations

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Aims of the Project
  • To protect the collection of unique masters
  • To provide an easily accessible improved online
    catalogue
  • To provide audio CD-Rs for loan
  • To provide browse audio access from any desktop
    PC
  • To provide BWAV files for later use in an on-line
    archive
  • Efficient and secure mass transfer

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Summary of Radio1 Project
  • Started Jan 2000-completed May 2002
  • Over 40,000 items/14,000 hrs transferred
  • Produced 22,000 Audio CDs for loan
  • Over 1500 DVDs containing Bwav files
  • Browse over intranet

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Radio1 Content
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Transfer Schematic1
Tapes requestioned from archive Four
simultaneous transfers to Sadie
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Transfer Schematic2
Audio CD burn, BWAV compiled to DVD print
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Transfer Schematic3
Quality check, return to archive Browse loaded
into Real Audio Server
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Transfer Schematic
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Schematic Data Flow
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Preservation Editing Retrieval
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Metadata
BWAV File Header
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Workflow Lessons
  • Collect data in electronic format
  • Enter data only once, read by all
  • Avoid manual entry - use barcodes
  • Automatic insertion of Metadata
  • Data errors - check clean
  • Make catalogue and transfer part of a team
    located in one place.

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Playback
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Preservation of BBC Radio Collections
Adrian Williams
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