Aim:
Digitise The Daily Telegraph’s enviable 150 year newspaper archive to deliver incremental revenue and usable editorial assets.

What I did:
I managed the pitch and RFP process for The Telegraph’s print archive with a mix of technology platforms, outsourced scanning agencies, traditional information / library platform managers.
The challenge was significant as The Telegraph had a mix of bound physical newspapers grouped in volumes, some digital PDFs (mid 1990’s onwards), microfiche reels and pre scanned assets. I had to assess the whole mix of assets and the risk of any damage to heritage materials which were the property of the owners. As well as liaising with our legal team, I was quickly familiarised with requirements from our insurers, risk assessors, outsourced storage facilities managers, and the delicate world of handling historic material and valuable archives.
I managed the business case, internal rationalisation for the digitisation project and the whole contract and delivery of final digital files internally to editorial and externally with the client.
The client’s aim was to offer The Telegraph’s amazing 150 year archive to be included in an academic research database with a subscription model as the revenue source.