digital archive content
Europe's art needs cash to land at digital fingertips
News Europe's online cultural library - a digital repository of countries' books, music, paintings, photographs and films, accessed through a single digital archive - is set to go live this autumn, according to the Commission. [12 Aug 2008]
Ashley Highfield
AS Profile The Beeb owns more archive material than any other broadcaster in the world, but rights management and transferring that resource to digital formats will prove tricky. He continues to drive forward the BBC's digital strategy through initiatives... [12 Oct 2007]
Digital Archive Transforms News Processes at CNN
White Paper The company recognized that its future systems needed to be able to manage, access and deliver content with greater flexibility. The metadata content is stored on the large RAID disk array attached to IBM eServer pSeries servers running WebSphere... [06 Aug 2007]
BBC's new media boss talks web 3.0
News The BBC's digital archiving initiative is also a big project, in several senses, Auntie owning more archive material than any other broadcaster in the world. By "ingesting" he means physically transferring tapes onto digital storage. [03 Jul 2007]
Photos: BFI switches on film jukebox
Photo The initial storage capacity of the Mediatheque IT infrastructure is two terabytes - which equates to around 200 hours of digitised media content from the original BFI archive. The BFI South Bank Mediatheque in London currently holds around 400... [14 May 2007]
High tech training for chefs of tomorrow
News Click here to browse the full archive of our photo stories. Ghurbhurun explained: "There is an expectation from the students coming through - they are living in a digital world with YouTube and MySpace and iPods and Xboxes and the last thing they... [06 Nov 2006]
Gates snuggles up to Auntie Beeb
News The BBC is working on several digital broadcasting projects, including a scheme to make its programming archive available online. The agreement could give the software giant a major role in the BBC's delivery of internet-based digital content in... [29 Sep 2006]
Google book-scanning bid gets new buddy
News UC officials are already having books digitised as part of the Open Content Alliance (OCA), which is led by the not-for-profit Internet Archive, Microsoft and Yahoo! Google has added another partner to its controversial library-book scanning... [09 Aug 2006]
Digital library to save web content forever
News The British Library is using cryptographic time-stamping technology to protect the integrity of the electronic documents in its new archive. The library is building the new archive system by starting with the storage tech, designing a system which... [08 Jun 2006]
European digital library takes shape
News The EC said the final figure would be much higher as "every library, archive and museum in Europe will be able to link its digital content to the European Digital Library". At least six million books, documents and other cultural works will be made... [03 Mar 2006]
Yahoo! and TiVo tie the TV knot
News Google Video is the company's latest experimental work to archive closed captioning of broadcast television shows and make their content searchable. this year also launched a searchable video archive. [07 Nov 2005]
Microsoft and British Library turn 100,000 books electronic
News and the Internet Archive, which Microsoft has recently become involved in, as well as Google's on-off Google Print scheme. The British Library confirmed its love of all things digital earlier this year, when it said it would make it a priority to... [04 Nov 2005]
Schools get £125m for classroom software
News The programme will run in parallel with the BBC's £150m Digital Curriculum project - now called BBC Jam - which is due to start in January 2006 and aims to use the BBC's extensive archive to develop and distribute free content to schools online. [03 Nov 2005]
Microsoft joins the book search bandwagon
News Internet Archive, a not-for-profit organisation formed to offer access to historical collections that exist in digital format, will digitise the material. Internet Archive project, to be run by the Open Content Alliance, will digitise only texts in... [26 Oct 2005]
Playboy set for online launch next month
News The software, which is compatible with both PCs and Macintosh machines, allows customers to navigate content via hyperlinks and text search, send copies to friends via email, archive content, and zoom in on text and images. [25 Aug 2005]
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