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Hello Outriders -

This week on the podcast I have been chatting with Matthew Postgate. He's the controller of 91Èȱ¬ Research and Development and he looks after the R&D department, the group that runs our web platform and he's also involved in the joint venture - YouView.

On and before going to record with Matthew, I asked our Outriding listeners if they had any questions for him. Naturally you had some good ones so I added a few in to this week's interview.

Your questions

Time on Outriders always seems to pass so quickly! This also means that I didn't have time to ask everyone's questions.

Thank goodness for Sarah Mines then! She helped to arrange the interview *and* she also came up with some answers for those of you who posed questions that I was not able to put to Matthew. So, here goes...

Mark Hillary asked "When will the entire 91Èȱ¬ Archive be digitised and available to browse and search?"

Wouldn't that be awesome! I can see that when that day comes, I will easily lose hours to the site looking for things I think I remember. For Mark, and everyone else who is interested in finding out more - here's some related reading for you -

Permanent collections - the next stage in opening up the best of the 91Èȱ¬ By Roly Keating.

In a related question, Petra Broddle asked "Is there a possibility for pay-per-view for older content? Hopefully some of the following links will help answer your question Petra -

Jake Berger - Digital Public Space: Turning a big idea into a big thing

You'll see in that post that Jake Berger mentions the Guardian Technology podcast with the excellent Jemima Kiss. You can find that edition here.

Further reading

You can also read more on the topic from Bill Thomson himself in this post - Digital Public Space Partnerships and from John Zubrzycki of 91Èȱ¬ R&D on archive research work, with Sam Favies of 91Èȱ¬ R&D on Multimedia Classification, Tony Ageh - Controller Archive Development and his Prix Italia speech speech and from Helen Papadopolous on the 91Èȱ¬ Genome.

So many clever people are working on these issues, talking about the related problems and trying to find the solutions that I can hardly wait to see what the future will bring. Let's hope that we can catch up with them when it happens and talk to them on Outriders!

Get in touch!

In the mean time, if you are innovating with a little R&D of your own that you would like to share, if you've seen something on the web and you'd like us to find out more, then you can always get in touch.

You can email me at Outriders at 91Èȱ¬ dot co dot uk, you can tweet at us on where we are 91Èȱ¬ underscore Outriders, or find us on where, as with this week's edition, we often ask questions and post updates relating to the radio edition and podcast.

Until next week!

~ Jamillah