Beta BBC World Archive Website

[John Bravin]

I discovered a beta BBC World Archive website today

http://worldservice.prototyping.bbc.co.uk/

This prototype was built by BBC Research & Development and started as 
part of the Automatic Broadcast Content Interlinking Project (ABC-IP), a 
collaboration between BBC R&D and MetaBroadcast. The ABC-IP project is 
supported by the UK government's Technology Strategy Board (TSB) as a 
result of its 'Metadata: Increasing the value of digital content' 
competition from September 2010.

There are a number (actually only a few, don't get excited) of Peel 
interviews etc, including for example a 2003 Write On program dedicated 
to Peel and his producer at that time Bobby Seiler

http://worldservice.prototyping.bbc.co.uk/programmes/X0557689

The site is wonderfully detailed for the anally retentive sound 
archivists out there.  You can for example tag 5 second sound bites 
within the show. That said it is no way as good as the wonderful Peel wiki).

John