[Avid-L2] BBC axes £98m Digital Media "tapeless" Initiative

Yow! Anyone know more (and allowed to talk about it)?

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BBC axes £98m technology project to avoid 'throwing good money after bad'
Independent investigation launched after Digital Media Initiative, which aimed to digitise archive, results in catalogue of errors

The BBC has admitted that it has wasted almost £100m on a technology project that was designed to make the corporation "tapeless", and has closed it to stop it "throwing good money after bad".

The BBC has spent £98.4m on the controversial Digital Media Initiative – which was designed to do away with video tapes and create a kind of internal YouTube of BBC archive content that staff can access, upload, edit and then air from their computers – the equivalent of almost 660,000 licence fees.
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Rest of the Guardian's story:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/may/24/bbc-technology-project-digital-media-initiative


Jim Feeley
jfeeley@gmail.com





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