Week 5: 11-17 December
Learn more about deaccessioning, ‘orphan manifestations’ and how a silent landmark inspired this year’s Christmas must-have.
Knowledge and Collections
Week 4: 4-10 December 2024
In this edition we explore the importance of barcode scanning, discover a lost world in a Tring basement and examine the anatomy of a trailer.
Week 3: 27 November – 3 December 2024
Learn more about a recent archive adventure to India, how our curators have been taking a fresh look at our collections and the importance of a good label, in our latest blog.
Week 2: 20-26 November 2024
This week we shout from the rooftops about the BFI Mediatheque, head to the Manchester Animation Festival and learn about sustainability in archiving
Week 1: 13-19 November 2024
As we gear up for World TV Day on 21 November, learn more about how we archive off-air TV broadcasts and make these available at the BFI Mediatheque
Week 0: Time to go Inside the Archive
Welcome to the first edition of our new, weekly blog exploring the work of the BFI National Archive
Reframing the public’s relationship with the nation’s screen heritage
Arike Oke, Executive Director of Knowledge and Collections shares our ambitions to establish the BFI National Archive as the most open moving image collection in the world.
Making the BFI National Archive the most open in the world? Start with open source.
An introduction to STORA: System for Television Off-air Recording and Archiving
Open reel to open source: digital preservation of the UK’s videotape heritage
Data workflows, tools and processes for a large-scale digitisation project.