Opening Up the Archives: Part 5- Finding the Content
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| 11:50 UK time, Wednesday, 18 July 2012
After a brief hiatus we are returning to our continuing serial- Opening Up the Archives.Ìý In this week's episode Alex Mansfield introduces us to the complexities and challenges of metadata.ÌýÌý From the writtenÌýarchives come a lifetime's worth of Radio Times back copies, which Bill Thompson explains are in fact crucial repositories of historical information about broadcasting in the UK.Ìý
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Radios Times 9-15th February 1985. Part of the archive of Radio Times that provides a crucial historical metadata store for the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳.
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ÌýAnd back in the archives themselves, Alex waxes lyrical on the nature of one of the finest recordings within the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s extensive collection.
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ÌýOur final episode will be posted next week, and to see previous episodes go to this listing of all the blog posts in this series.
Comment number 1.
At 20th Jul 2012, Kit Green wrote:I trust that the vinyl album being handled by Alex Mansfield was not in fact your sole copy. I would be very upset if he handled any of my vinyl collection in that manner.
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