BBC plan to open up archive

The BBC plan to open up their archive to make a treasure trove of material available to everyone, BBC Director-General Greg Dyke has announced.
Giving the Richard Dunn Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival, Mr Dyke said: "The BBC probably has the best television library in the world.
"Up until now this huge resource has remained locked up, inaccessible to the public because there hasn't been an effective mechanism for distribution.
"But the digital revolution and broadband are changing all that. For the first time there is an easy and affordable way of making this treasure trove of BBC content available to all."
The BBC Creative Archive would make selected BBC material universally available for private not commercial use in the UK.
Outlining the plan to open up the BBC's rich archive, Greg Dyke gave the example of a child using broadband at home, school or in a public library, to access the BBC material to help do their homework and projects.
"They search for real moving pictures which would turn their project into an exciting multi-media presentation. They download them and, hey presto, they are able to use the BBC material in their presentation for free," he said.
The BBC Creative Archive is just one example of the kind of public value initiatives that would come with the second phase of the digital revolution, he said.
"I believe that we are about to move into a second phase of the digital revolution, a phase which will be more about public than private value; about free, not pay services; about inclusion, not exclusion.
"In particular, it will be about how public money can be combined with new digital technologies to transform everyone's lives," he added.
However Greg Dyke made it clear the BBC would not be the only publicly funded player in the field in the digital revolution's second phase.
Commitment was needed from a wide range of organisations including local government, educational establishments and charities as well as the commercial sector in partnership with publicly funded partners.
Greg Dyke ended his speech by re-emphasising the role of the BBC in the digital revolution.
As well as projects such as the BBC Creative Archive and the BBC's involvement in broadband in Hull, Dyke hoped that there would be other opportunities where public money would be used alongside the developing technology to enrich society.
(GB)