Web Page For Every BBC Programme
The BBC is to create a web page for every episode of every television programme it has ever produced as part of a major online archive that will span nearly 80 years.
BBC executives hope the move will give its programmes a longer shelf life as well as plugging gaps on its website.
The project has already seen the corporation create more than 160,000 individual web pages over the past three months, with developers looking to create content for shows going back to the 1930s.
“Eventually we will add our programme back catalogue to produce pages for programming stretching back over nearly 80 years – featuring all the information we have on the richest TV and radio archive in the world,” the BBC director of vision, Jana Bennett, told the Banff television festival in Canada late yesterday.
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