Large project to open DR's archive

15 June 2023

A broad settlement group presented a new media agreement yesterday. At the Royal Danish Library, we are particularly pleased that money has also been set aside to make Denmark's Radio's archive broadcasts available to citizens online in close collaboration with DR.

- We are very, very satisfied. When you add our and DR's archive collections together, we have several million radio and TV broadcasts, and now we have a better opportunity to make them available to everyone from home, says deputy director Tonny Skovgård Jensen.

The agreement opens up a wide range of new uses and falls in line with the library's role as Denmark's national library, namely to collect, preserve and make available the cultural heritage.

- In the long term, the ambition is to make all DR archive broadcasts available. We are not going to offer a streaming service with select content, but we give citizens the opportunity to discover for themselves what interests them, explains Tonny Skovgård Jensen.

Now the planning of the big project begins. In cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and DR, we will negotiate with Copydan Arkiv about the rights. We look forward to being able to tell you more about concrete content and time horizon as the details fall into place.