The Creative Archive project couldn't succeed at the Beeb.
Paul Gerhardt, head of the creative archive project at the BBC, said he was "delighted to facilitate the recovery of these important recordings".
Further down the road, the launch of the BBC's own interactive media player (iMP) and creative archive should both boost the BBC's public service credentials.
This is an edited version of an essay appearing in a new University of the Arts London publication entitled Reflections on Archives, Museum and Special Collections, launching at Im/Material: Encounters in the Creative Archive.
Momen was technical director for the BBC's Creative Archive project, launched in April, which pulls together its own content along with material from organisations such as Channel 4, the British Film Institute and the Open University.
Other UK cultural institutions – libraries, museums, and galleries – had planned to join this creative archive, putting even more of the nation's heritage and treasures into the hands of the people who paid for them and to whom they belonged.
But since then similar projects, such as the Creative Archive scheme to open up the massive catalogue of material contained in the corporation's vaults, have been mothballed as bureaucracy overwhelms development.
If the CBC is to survive the transition, it could do worse to look to the BBC's own now-shelved plans for the "Creative Archive," announced during the runup to the last Charter Renewal, only to disappear with Greg Dyke after the Hutton Inquiry.
While having to rein in his more expansionist tendencies in the wake of Philip Graf's government commissioned report into BBC Online, he has also overseen the development of the Creative Archive and the interactive Media Player, two technologies that could prove the most revolutionary yet in the BBC's online journey.
But the whole BBC site should be the "creative archive".
This is where Backstage came from along with projects for the creative archive, innovation labs, etc.
