Brits raise the stakes for online news archives
Liz Foreman May 11th, 2008
When putting together a data retention policy (specifically, public archives) for your website, where do you start? Where do you stop? Does the policy vary for video and database projects? What’s the presentation like? What’s the business model? There are so many questions.
Now, comes word that UK publication The Times newspaper is putting up 200 years of content. Free. Talk about an archive.
On the opposite end of things, I know of news sites that purge content after a month (I hate this idea - it is contrary to my modern definition of journalism) or put older content behind a paywall.
Mark my words, with folks turning over stones for money, news sites will learn how to archive smarter, with business models attached.
[Despite the coincidence in terminology, this post has nothing to do with with the EU’s search engine data retention investigation.]
2 Comments Add your own
1. Stuart | May 13th, 2008 at 5:51 am
Grrrr, it’s not and never has been ‘The Times of London’ It’s ‘The Times’.
‘UK paper, The Times’ is more accurate as it isn’t a regional paper like The New York Times
2. Liz Foreman | May 13th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
My bad. I’ll change that, Stuart!
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