Editor-in-Chief for digital archive
Hillsborough Panel · Hillsborough: The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel · Issued 12 September 2012 · Addressed to: Cabinet Office
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
An Editor-in-Chief should be appointed to be responsible for the policy and implementation of the digital archive post-disclosure and continuing technical support should be provided to manage existing and new material.
Hillsborough Panel, Hillsborough: The Report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel · 12 Sep 2012 Source PDF →
Published evidence summary
Publicly available evidence relating to this recommendation:
Sources
How was this evidence gathered?
Response — verbatim from government
●Cabinet Office
No formal government response published. There is no evidence that an Editor-in-Chief position was established for ongoing management of the Digital Archive. The original Panel website (hillsborough.independent.gov.uk) was archived by The National Archives as a static snapshot rather than being actively managed with new editorial oversight.
Cabinet Office · 1 Dec 2012
Evidence trail — what's actually happened since
No published activity has been recorded against this recommendation yet.
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