Saving old BBC pages for the future

The BBC is a big site, there are pages within pages within pages and even deeper than that, there are large sections with multiple sub-sections that have their own top level related sections. But equally there are certain shows with their own top level site (Eastenders) and others sitting under the /programmes site (The Bubble).

 

Doctor Who Collection

I know a number of people disagree with me on this one, and I’ve actually had in person arguments over it, but I like the collection based way the BBC is releasing and publishing the contents of its archive. I like this for several reasons but the main one being findability – if everything could have been released en mass it would have taken some serious semantic technology and data [...]