by Derek Morrison, 29 November 2009
The BBC has a new intiative underway with the working title Digital Revolution.. They are in process of producing a new four part documentary about how the Web is transforming the world and they intend to open up as much of the production process as possible. It’s an interesting idea with some similarities to offering an interested audience drafts and pre-prints for comments but also with some echoes of the Domesday Project in which the BBC was a key partner. The content for the Domesday Project was a mixture of the professional and the amateur and it is reputed to have involved ~ 1,000,000 UK participants. The Domesday Project also provided an early example of how rapidly obsolete technologies can strand data in techno-islands that within a few years can be very difficult to reach. Further information about Digital Revolution can be found in the “about” section of the BBC site.
