The idea behind Project Barcelona (no, none of us can remember why it’s called that) is to expand very significantly the range of BBC content that’s available in the UK on a download-to-own basis. 'DTO' as it's often called is the digital equivalent of purchasing a DVD, or a VHS in the old days – a permanent copy of a favourite programme to own and keep.

At the moment, although partners such as iTunes offer a selection of the most popular BBC titles for purchase as downloads, we estimate that more than 90% of what the BBC commissions becomes unavailable for download once it’s removed from BBC iPlayer.

We’d like to change that, and get to a point where it’s the norm, not the exception, for shows to be available for digital purchase soon after transmission, with the most comprehensive range of BBC titles being offered via a bespoke online shop.

We envisage this to be a commercial site separate from the licence fee-funded BBC iPlayer, which would of course continue to offer its hugely successful and popular service of recently broadcast BBC programmes to catch up on-demand for free.

Many of those same programmes would also be available for purchase via Barcelona, just as some titles today are released for sale as DVDs or on iTunes while they're still in their catch-up window on BBC iPlayer– audiences would simply have a choice of whether they want an immediate viewing experience on BBC iPlayer, for free, or to buy their own permanent digital copy and watch it whenever they want.

The rights for programmes in Barcelona would be wholly non-exclusive: producers would be free to work with other digital retailers as well, and of course to exploit their programmes in multiple other ways, such as secondary TV channels, subscription services, DVD, video-on-demand, and so on.

Over time the aim would be to make available not just an expanded range of recent titles, but a far greater volume of archive content as well. Barcelona would open up an important additional space for that very broad set of BBC programming that currently isn’t being made available by the market, much of it never seen since its original transmission. We believe there’s value for audiences in that, as well as additional revenues for producers, rights holders and the creative industries.

We’re excited by the potential of the Barcelona idea, but it’s still very much in development, and it’s certainly too early for us to be able to offer further detail on issues such as pricing, technology and timing. There’s much work to be done with our partners across the industry before it’ll be ready for submission to the BBC Trust for approval. We’ll keep you posted.

Roly Keating is the Director of Archive Content

The BBC iPlayer has brought time-shifted viewing on demand to the mainstream, but rather than ushering in the 'death of TV' many forecast, linear TV broadcasting has prospered. The challenge now lies in evolving TV to add the interactive richness that will make TV better, but keep it simple and seamless.

It's an issue close to my heart. In addition to my role as Director of Archive Content, I also represent the BBC's editorial interests in TV on the BBC Online Direction Group, and it's in that capacity I gave a keynote speech at the Digital Television Group's Annual Summit earlier today.

The DTG brings together broadcasters, consumer electronics companies and platform operators to set standards in digital TV through standard-setting initiatives such as the DBook. The DBook provided the standard upon which Freeview (now bringing free to air TV to 15 million households) and Freeview HD (a further 1m households) was built, and will form the basis of YouView's technical specification. With the BBC a partner shareholder in both ventures, the DTG remains an important shareholder partner as we seek to ensure that subscription-free TV continues to prosper in the internet age.

Connected TV, whether on Pay-TV platforms or free-to-air, remains relatively niche. It's a fragmented, complicated market for licence-fee payers. Pay-TV platforms continue to innovate, the BBC continues to make BBC iPlayer available on a wide range of connected devices and big innovations such as YouView will certainly play a positive role in boosting take-up in the future, but for the most part, video on demand remains largely out of reach for free-to-air homes. And in broadband connected homes, many of the next-generation TVs that can deliver online services to the big screen remain unconnected.

I believe that as an industry, we can do more to make connected TV more attractive and accessible for mainstream audiences. It means working in partnership with the DTG and others to develop innovative gateways into IPTV and on-demand, whether it's the Red Button, 'go-back' EPGs or others.

But above all for the BBC it means continued innovation in online products - like the BBC iPlayer - that will encourage audiences to connect their TVs. Having refocused our online editorial agenda for BBC Online around a product model we're now thinking about which of these products should be repurposed for the big screen - and how we can do this in a way that's both cost-effective and simple for mainstream audiences. Partnership will be the key to delivering on this, and we look forward to tacking the challenges ahead.

You can access my presentation here.

Roly Keating is Director of Archive Content and Executive Editor, BBC Online