DR-arkivet

Since the content in DR-arkivet is in Danish, you will get the best results, if you use Danish words for your search.

When you search in DR-arkivet, you search in all the metadata we have about the programmes. In most cases this means title, channel, time, description and in some cases category .

Far from all programmes are coupled with a good description or associated with a meaningful category, so you may have to search a few times before you get the right result.

You have the best chance of success with your search, if you know the title or match keywords which appear in the description of the programme.

Once you have completed your search, you can filter by channel and/or time.

When you search via the search field, you get the results where all your keywords appear at the same time - in exactly the form and spelling you have written them.

This means that a search on Eurovision Song Contest will present you with results where all the words are included - each with exactly this form and spelling - but not necessarily in the same sentence or order.

This also means that a search for, for example stunt will not find results that say stunts or stuntman.

If you want results that include multiple forms, spellings, endings, or compound words that include your search term, you can use ? or * in your search.

? is useful for replacing one letter if, for example, you want to include two different spellings of a word in your search. A search for Son?a will show you results for both Sonia and Sonja.

* is used to replace one or more letters and thus makes your search even broader. For example, if you use * at the end of a word, you can search for all endings of the word. A search for stunt* will thus show you results with stunt, stunts, stuntman, and so on.

You can also put * in front of a word, if you want to include compound words where your search word comes after another word. For example, a search for *hop will include results with hiphop and other combinations.

If you put * both in front of and behind the word, you make the broadest search that includes the word in one form or another. Here, both different word combinations and endings will be included. A search for *fit* will, for example, give you results with both outfit, fitness, profit, and so on.

If you want to narrow your search to only find results where your keywords appear together, in a specific order, and with the exact spelling, you can use quotation marks.

For example, the search "Bamse og Kylling" will only show you results where the words are spelled exactly that way and appear in that specific order.

If you want to tell the search engine that you wish to search for certain combinations of keywords, you can use the so-called Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT.

• AND is used to limit your search results. For example, the search "Sonja fra Saxogade" AND Matador will only show you results where both Sonja fra Saxogade and Matador are present.
• OR is used to expand your search results. For example, the search "Sonja fra Saxogade" OR Matador will show you all the results that either contain Sonja fra Saxogade or Matador .
• NOT is used to exclude results where certain words occur. For example, the search Casper NOT Mandrilaftalen will show you results where Casper and not Mandrilaftalen occur.

Remember that AND, OR and NOT must be in capital letters.

After searching, you have the option to narrow the results by using filtering. Here you can filter by channel, category, and time.

Initially, you can only search content from 2006 onwards in DR-arkivet.

But fortunately, many popular shows were rebroadcast during the period, so you can, for example, find shows that were first broadcast in the 1980s. Older content will also be added later. From 1987 onwards, DR's programmes have been systematically collected, so from here on, almost all content has been archived in some form by Royal Danish Library. It takes time to make the older programmes ready for the online archive, and therefore the large amount of this content will be added later.

It is far from all programmes from DR that have been preserved in DR's own archive. The further you go back in time, the fewer programmes are preserved. Previously, DR archived their broadcasts selectively and reused the physical tapes from programmes that were not saved, as the tapes were extremely expensive. There will therefore be older content that we cannot add to DR-arkivet, as it simply has not been saved.

In addition, there are some content types we are not allowed to provide access to:

• Externally produced programmes, for example "Barnaby"
• Pure sports programmes
• Content restricted by DR due to vulnerable contributors, or where DR has made agreements with the contributors that the programme may not be broadcast again.

If you want to use clips or programmes from the archive in a way other than by viewing them in our archive, we refer you to DR regarding the purchase of rights. You can get help by writing to arkivsalg@dr.dk.

Educational institutions and museums may use the searchable archive provided that they have entered into an agreement on the use with Copydan. Royal Danish Library cannot advise on the use but instead refers to Copydan AVU-medier.

If your museum has a museum agreement with Copydan AVU-Medier, you can order radio and TV programmes and commercials for use in exhibitions and teaching. However, orders must be made via museets adgang til Mediestream and not DR-arkivet.