The BBC's long-awaited Genome Project - an online, searchable archive of the Radio Times from 1923 to 2009 - is set to go public "within a month, we hope".
"We are in the final stages of testing" says Hilary Bishop, Editor of Archive Development, but "there are lots of spelling mistakes and
punctuation errors and users will be invited to both edit the text to reflect what was
published in Radio Times (this will be subject to validation), as well as tell us additional
information about the programme (which wasn’t in Radio Times) or incidences of when
the schedule changed."
The back copies were scanned by a French company, who then extracted the information with optical character readers. The project was originally scheduled for completion in 2011. A year ago, Eddie Mair had a play with a version of the online archive, made available inside the BBC.
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