Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 2004-2008 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
3 boxes
Context area
Archival history
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Project planning records relating to the 2008 redesign and rebuilding of the Guardian website, work towards which began in c2005 and ended in September 2008. The project was known internally as R2.
The records are varied and include correspondence, agendas and notes of meetings, redesign briefs, businesses cases, roll-out plans and lists of technical requirements.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited
Accruals
System of arrangement
Broadly chronological.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Some records are closed in line with data protection and business confidentiality. See item level descriptions or contact the Archive for further information.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Access Status
Open(part)
Closed until
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
An A-Z of the R2 project was published online as part of the Inside the Guardian Blog between 17 November 2008 and 24 December 2008: https://www.theguardian.com/help/series/an-abc-of-r2