title

BBC Archive collections

homepage

https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/collections

description

The BBC Archive Centre in Perivale, West London, houses most of the BBC Archive collections across 8 vaults and 60 miles of shelving containing 15 million assets. Other stores are held across London, in Caversham near Reading and at other sites around the UK. Around 200 staff work in BBC Archives; their aim is to manage the diverse range of collections and support research, reuse and access to BBC material by BBC staff and others who need it.

creator or project

BBC

type

Catalogue

purpose

Learning

audience

performers

amateurs

listeners

example resource

https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/delia-derbyshire-and-the-bbc-radiophonic-workshop/zvk9scw

type of collected resources

Performance

Recording

Audio

scope of the collection

Geographical

geographical scope of data

United Kingdom

category of data collected

Metadata

collection size

>1M

data license

CC-BY

data size

~Gb