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  1. The future of searching the past: Transitioning from BBC Redux to Archive Search

    Mary McCarthy

    Senior Product Manager

    The future of searching the past: Transitioning from BBC Redux to Archive Search

    Redux recorded and stored all of our broadcast programmes for research and archive uses. Now Archive Search is the place to go to find archive content.

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  2. Hacking the future

    Bill Thompson

    Head of Future Value Research

    Next year is the BBC's centenary and a hackday asked teams to consider how we could make the best use of our rich history and the material in the BBC's extensive archive to engage future generations, with a view to shaping the next hundred years.

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  3. Music Memories and Memory Radio

    Jake Berger

    Executive Product Manager, BBC Archive Development

    Music Memories and Memory Radio

    Jake Berger gives an update on the project to help people with dementia to reconnect with their most powerful memories.

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  4. Taking BBC VR to new audiences - in libraries

    Zillah Watson, Dinah Lammiman

    BBC VR Hub team

    Taking BBC VR to new audiences - in libraries

    A new partnership for the BBC virtual reality team.

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  5. BBC Music Memories

    Jake Berger

    Executive Product Manager, BBC Archive Development

    BBC Music Memories

    Jake Berger explains how music is being used to help memory recall for people with dementia.

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  6. Taking to the skies - in VR

    Zillah Watson, Dinah Lammiman

    BBC VR Hub team

    Taking to the skies - in VR

    The VR team describe their latest experience - set during the 1943 Berlin Blitz.

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  7. Building the Computer Literacy Project archive

    Andy Armstrong

    Software Engineer, BBC Archive Development

    Building the Computer Literacy Project archive

    Andy Armstrong gives an insight into how he built an archive of the BBC's home computing TV programmes and software from the 1980s.

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  8. Archiving the BBC’s website and social media output

    Carl Davies

    Service Development and Delivery Manager

    Archiving the BBC’s website and social media output

    The BBC tries to maintain and keep older pages online for the public to access for as a long as possible (dependant on technology, editorial or copyright reasons). It’s the BBC Archives responsibility to archive copies offline and preserve them.

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  9. Developing digital experiences to help dementia sufferers

    Laura Harrison

    Producer, BBC Connected Studios

    Developing digital experiences to help dementia sufferers

    A workshop to investigate whether the BBC Archive can be used to help stimulate memory in people living with dementia. The workshop provided essential insight which was incorporated in their development of ideas for new digital experiences.

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  10. Labelling BBC Online's archived websites

    Neil McIntosh

    Managing Editor, BBC Online

    Labelling BBC Online's archived websites

    The BBC cares for its online archive, maintaining access to years of content. But maintaining access to the archive is different to maintaining the content itself, which means much of the archive is frozen in time: we no longer update it. In those cases, we’ve added a clear label to the page.

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