Talk:BBC Domesday Project

Article from Your Computer (December 1984)
May be of interest: http://wos.meulie.net/pub/sinclair/magazines/YourComputer/Issue8412/Pages/YourComputer841200051.jpg Richard W.M. Jones (talk) 21:49, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks. There doesn't appear to be any statement that the article can support currently.  I have added the link to the External links section in the meantime.  If I ever got time I would rework or rewrite the article making use of the linked sources. -- Regregex (talk) 21:11, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

BBC Domesday Reloaded
The BBC is about to (due to be on May 12th 2011) launch Domesday reloaded: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/domesday/2011/04/prepare-for-launch.shtml Nevalicori (talk) 21:31, 11 May 2011 (UTC)


 * BBC Domesday Reloaded link added per WP:RED... Badgernet  ₪  16:25, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Removed "likening" to Google products
Blatant editing by Pro-BBC editors, containing weasel words and no citations to any reference that this project in any way 'led the way' or 'inspired' any present mapping software or service. (Any more than could be argued for a paper map or indeed the original Doomsday census). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.31.63.141 (talk) 21:36, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

I don't think this is entirely fair. I cannot say whether or not the Domesday Videodisc 'led the way' or driectly 'inspired' present mapping software, but it certainly had a lot in common with Google Earth, insofar as one could zoom in from satellite view to street level and then view a series of descriptive texts and photographs. But it was nowhere near as sophisticated as Google Earth, Google Maps or Google Street View. It was limited to our small country and it was very slow, but it was ahead of its time. I used the videodisc regularly with students of English as a Foreign Language. It was excellent for teaching both the language and the culture. I still have a VCR recording of the BBC publicity film showing how the Domesday Videodisc worked. GroovyGuzi (talk) 12:22, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Promotional disc
Maybe a still from this video could be included within a future infobox here. -- Trevj (talk) 09:27, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Use
What was the intended use for this project? Was it intended to go into museums? Libraries? Schools? Homes? Not clear how this complex technology was supposed to be used — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.71.24.214 (talk) 05:07, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Good point - I agree. I found some information in one of the references already included. I've included it, and it can be added to by others. If you read around the subject and find the answers you're after, you can add some more info yourself or drop a note here. Thanks. -- Trevj (talk) 07:20, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

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Additional unverifiable Mike Tibbetts info
There is an additional (although unverifiable (perhaps a Goggle+ account?)) source that reinforces the ref # 7 (The Risks Digest), this is from a comment in the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn0oFJU5pxM :

Mike Tibbetts 4 years ago ''Hi, I was the Director of the BBC Domesday Project working under Peter Armstrong the overall Editor and original creator of the project. I need to put a couple of points of the record straight. Firstly, the project's recent reputation for ignorance of digital obsolescence is quite undeserved. From the very first, one of the key members of our Steering Committee was Professor Howard Newby, then Director of the National Data Archive at the University of Essex. Knowing full well that the Domesday technology (which had to be invented since optical disks, internet and modern PC's were not yet available) was likely to be transitory and to ensure that the Domesday data was not lost at the conclusion of the project, all the raw data files, in perfectly conventional computer formats, were transferred to the National Data Archive for safekeeping on behalf of the nation. When a project was launched twenty-five years later to convert the Domesday data to a modern format, I understand that it could not be found anywhere in the National Data Archive and had to be reconstructed from copies of the twelve-inch Laservision disks. Thus, the failure is not that the project was technologically blinkered or profligate with the digital data but that, back in the paper-dominated 1980s, the National Data Archive may have been curatorially unsure how to cope with and preserve digital data in electronic form. Secondly, whilst Domesday was undeniably a commercial failure due to the system's high end-price, the project was badly let down by Philips, who promised in 1984, at the outset of the project, to deliver a modified Laservision player at an affordable price under £1,000. In 1986, when the rest of the project had been successfully achieved on time and on budget, Philips announced a player priced several times greater than originally promised. Perhaps they had decided over the life of the project that their commercial future lay more in CD-ROM disks than the Laservision format and adjusted their business strategy accordingly.'' (I have the hunch that in 50 years Wikipedia will last longer than Youtube, so the reason for copy-pasting this text right here in Talk area :D ) --Mizukane203 (talk) 03:01, 4 May 2020 (UTC)