Quick link to videos of Jacquie Kavanagh talking about the BBC's written archives. Jacquie's a Multimedia Archivist now rather than the Written Archivist that she's credited as being as all the information management disciplines in the BBC are blurring into one.
Or perhaps that should be two as we have media management and media archiving both taking place within the BBC - and the needs of the archive are not the only thing that drives the requirements of actively managing media. Although these have always been very closely linked at the Beeb - more within the records management discipline than other areas, but the joined-up information management-archive management approach has spread as we're moving general archival policies up to the point of creation rather than just worrying about material at the point of capture.
Anyway, that's all beside the point - the videos give a brief look at the richness of the BBC's archive. Sadly this type of detail is more and more likely to be lost as our written conversations become increasingly ephemeral using today's communication technologies. What may be good for business isn't necessarily good for posterity.
And now I'm starting to sound like a Luddite, so I'll stop now.
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