Digital Preservation and Personal Digital Archives on BBC Radio 4

There was a 6 minute interview on digital preservation and personal digital archives on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme at 8.21 am UK time this morning with Richard Ovenden (chair of the Digital Preservation Coalition), John Sutherland of UCL, and John Humphries of the BBC. The discussion did feel a bit weak in places and the researcher input to the discussion perhaps could have been balanced with input from someone active in the digital humanities but it was still interesting to hear and the digital library/archive case is well put by Richard Ovenden. You can now listen to a recording of the discussion online.

The official description of the broadcast is as follows: The poet Wendy Cope has sold her archive to the British Library for £32,000, a bounty that includes everything from letters, diaries and drafts to more than 40,000 emails.John Sutherland, professor of literature at University College London, and Richard Ovenden, of the Bodleian Library, consider whether emails really denote a digital form of art, and what impact the email will have for future literary research.

2 Responses to “Digital Preservation and Personal Digital Archives on BBC Radio 4”

  1. Richard Wright on 17 Mar 2016 at 7:25 pm

    Very pleased to find that in March 2016 the link to the online audio still works!

  2. neil on 27 Apr 2016 at 1:38 pm

    Me too – even surprised!

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