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We aim to create a digital radio archive which will preserve a representative proportion of ongoing UK radio output.
The British Library is recognised as the home of the nation’s radio archive. The current radio collection comprises around 250,000 hours. Additionally, via a longstanding arrangement with the BBC, the Library also provides research access to the extensive radio collections of the BBC Archives. However, of the estimated 3 million hours of radio broadcast in the UK each year from 700 stations, the Library is acquiring a mere 20,000 hours (mostly news-based content). It is estimated that 92% of current UK radio is not being properly preserved, with only 2% being made available for potential research post-transmission.
To address the gaps in our recordings, the National Radio Archive project (part of the Save our Sounds programme) plans to create a digital radio archive that will preserve a representative proportion of ongoing UK radio output and make this available for research.
Our first step is to build a pilot radio archive, covering up to 50 stations from across the UK, with the potential to develop this into a long-term service.
We will be using speech recognition technology to increase the searchability of radio and to encourage its integration with other, text-based media. The selection of content for the archive will be determined as much by research need as preservation requirements, and we will be interested to learn from research projects where we might be able to collaborate as part of the pilot development.
This is the title of the article by Isabel Martínez written for issue 14 of Grand Place journal, a publication of the Mario Onaindia Foundation.
This special monographic issue has been dedicated to commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Burgos process and has been coordinated by professors José Antonio Pérez, Arturo Cajal and Luis Castells.
An in-depth study where she has prevailed rigor in the historical aspects and intellectual honesty in the evaluative aspects of those events and their political and ethical derivatives.
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