Slideshow Transcript

1. Slide 1:Public television archives: the strategic context paul.gerhardt@archivesforcreativity.com June 2008
2. Slide 2:Some questions Why is public broadcasting at a crossroads? Case study: what happened to the BBC Creative Archive? Digital literacy – a new culture war? How can we legitimise creativity? Case study: the concept of the American Archive
3. Slide 3:Public service broadcasting from analogue to digital • • from scheduled to unscheduled • from over the air to over the internet • from one to many broadcast to one to one conversation • from traditional production to user conversation • from ephemeral to permanent
4. Slide 4:A new landscape where archive content can generate new public value. But there is a paradox: • we are capturing all new content • past content generally remains locked up So: key issue for psb’s is how to release that public value.