BBC – Press Office – BBC’s Director of New Media & Technology defines vision for the future

By Craig | Published: April 30, 2006

BBC – Press Office – BBC's Director of New Media & Technology defines vision for the future

A great article from the BBC about searching for stuff on the Internet (part of the rhetoric of Web2.0)

'Find' relates to the next generation of navigation. "Metadata is the information that we hold about our programmes; if we want to unlock the archive, and enable people to search by programme or theme, then we are going to have to have awesome metadata," said Highfield. "Unlocking our archive is one of the biggest challenges we face and, potentially, one of the richest gifts we can give to the nation.

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