00:00 GVs
Archbishop Tutu at KCL
GV
Audience at Archbishop Tutu address
Wide
– Tutu at lectern
c.u.
– Tutu at lectern
Audience
applauds
GVs
Archbishop Tutu unveiling plaque for Infection and Immunity
Programme at KCL
Exteriors,
Kay House
Interior
of CCH, Prof. Short walks through shot
Wide
– Professor Arthur Burns at computer in CCH
Over
shoulder view of computer
Reverse
of above
c.u.
Clergy Database web page
(Note: The images of Archbishop Tutu in the opening
sequence of this VNR are from the Research-TV
archive)
Guide Voice: Archbishop Desmond Tutu is one of
the foremost figures of our age – his life is a thread that
runs through the story of South Africa and its transition from
repression to truth, freedom and reconciliation.
As his 75th birthday approaches, King’s College London,
where Archbishop Tutu studied for his degree in Divinity, is to
celebrate the life of one of its most famous alumni by digitising
his entire archive.
The college’s Centre for Computing in the Humanities is a
cutting-edge facility designed to give researchers and scholars
unimagined access to archive material. The process of digitising
archive material to create innovative digital resources for
research, teaching and public education is a developing field in
which King’s College London is a world leader.
00:46 SOT: Professor Harold Short,
Professor of Humanities Computing. Director of the Centre for
Computing in the Humanities, King’s College
London - “Up until the mid 80s the tools
which were available for humanities scholars from computing were
very limited; large word lists. They had their uses but they
weren’t groundbreaking in any major way. But as computing has
become more popular and more accessible, more and more tools have
become available, it’s started to become a very exciting area
and the main purpose of the centre is to explore, with humanities
scholars, the ways in which new things can be done, or old things
can be done, in new ways.”
01:19 Over
shoulder view of preliminary archive web page
c.u.
web page (x
5)
Researcher
at computer
Cutaway
– hands on keyboard
Researcher
Exterior,
Kew Gardens
Kew
Gardens sign – “How Kew Grew”
Wide
- Researcher with Kew features on computer
c.u.
of above
Selection
of shots from Kew DVD (x 3)
GVs
CCH researchers at various projects (x6)
Guide Voice: The Tutu Digital Archive, which
will be created in South Africa in collaboration with the
University of the Western Cape and the University of Witwatersrand,
will contain speeches, film footage, interviews, photographs and
even personal letters from throughout Archbishop Tutu’s life
and career and will offer, among other things, a unique view of
South Africa during the apartheid era.
The project will be launched later this year and is a good
example of the advanced research-based work that is being developed
at the Centre; applying a variety of computing technologies to a
range of humanities subjects in ways that haven’t been fully
investigated before.
In another recent project, the centre’s Visualisation
Laboratory produced a DVD on the development of London’s
world famous Botanical Gardens at Kew.
A virtual reality piece commissioned by KewGardens as part of
preparations to mark their 250th anniversary, the “How Kew
Grew” DVD makes full use of CCH’s state-of-the-art
realisation tools. As well as entertaining visitors to the gardens
it has provided some valuable insights for KewGarden’s own
research staff.
Similarly, projects such as developing a database of Clergy of
the Church of England or projects that look at the social history
of Anglo Saxon England, ancient stone inscriptions or traditional
land boundaries all have applications beyond their original target
audiences, breaking down barriers between academic disciplines and
encouraging new ways to look at links between different areas of
research.
02:49 SOT: Professor Charlotte Roueché, Head of
Department, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, King’s
College London – “Over the years, because
the centre is here, I’ve developed ideas and I’ve
tested possibilities that wouldn’t have happened –
there was a kind of intellectual fertilisation that goes on which I
didn’t really notice was happening when I first started to
think about publishing digitally but I now see that the reason I
thought in the way that I did, the reason I had the ideas that I
had was because of the constant contact and interaction with the
centre – and that was before I started launching projects
with them.” (35 secs)
03:26 GVs
research staff discussing projects
Guide Voice: It’s this sharing of work in
an easily accessible environment that excites researchers from all
disciplines. This technology can provide worldwide access and
insight into a wide range of subjects and it is this that provides
the key to its future.
03:41 SOT: Professor Dame Janet L Nelson, Professor of
Medieval History, immediate past president of the Royal Historical
Society – “I think it’s absolutely
true to say that academic disciplines have historically grown up in
separate boxes and that what computing has done is brought us
together. It’s made the language and literature scholars on
one hand and the historians on the other and the people who
specialise in inscriptions and coins and in archaeology get
together.”
04.02 SOT: Prof. Short - “One of the
areas that I think is particularly exciting is developing the sort
of resources that come out of these projects is good for
scholarship – it provides new opportunities for scholars
– but it also opens these materials up to a much wider public
and so in the context of the lifelong learning phenomenon some of
these resources are magic. People of whatever age, whatever stage
in life, and indeed whatever country they live in; typically have a
lot of new materials that tell them about their cultural
heritage.”
04:36 Screen
shot - Tutu Archive project
Over
shoulder – researcher at computer
Guide Voice: The Tutu Archive will open up a
valuable worldwide resource to anyone interested in social and
cultural history. Proof, if proof were needed, that leading edge
computing isn’t just for the techies!
04.48 End
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