Hooray

Brilliant news from the BBC - they're finally creating an archive database by scanning back copies of the Radio Times. In the days of my direct employment there, I used to bang on about this something rotten, spurred by the creation of excellent Times pdf archive.

I hope, in the end, this becomes a public database. The next stage, however, is important. There are still people obsessed with metadata at the Beeb - i.e. summarising programme information, rather than storing everything. Please, just store it - and let cleverer people work on new ways of searching the store.