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 2006 marks
the 75th birthday of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the
world’s greatest humanitarian figures and King’s
College London will commemorate this milestone in the life of their
alumnus by embarking on the digitisation of his entire archive
– using cutting-edge technology to provide worldwide access
and insight to the life of an extraordinary individual.
When we think about computers and their use in research
we’re most likely to think about them in association with
science and technology but researchers at King’s College
London are now extending the use of emerging internet technology
beyond the scientific community with this exciting new project.
The process of digitising material is a developing science and
the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) at King’s,
the largest facility of its type in the world, is leading the field
in this groundbreaking work.
The Desmond Tutu archive, which will contain speeches, film
footage, interviews, photographs and even personal letters, is
being developed in collaboration with a number of South African
Universities including the University of the Western Cape and will
offer, among other things, a unique view of South Africa during the
apartheid era.
Other recent projects for this exciting research facility have
included How Kew Grew – a Virtual Reality DVD commissioned by
Kew Gardens as part of preparations to mark their 250th
anniversary. Visually stunning, this DVD uses CCH’s state of
the art realisation tools to illustrate the ways in which
London’s world famous botanical gardens has grown and changed
over the years.
Expected Footage:
- Archive shots of Archbishop Desmond Tutu
- GVs King’s College CCH, including various computer screens
and development work - Extracts from “How Kew Grew”
– Virtual Reality computer sequences
- GVs Mock Up of the Desmond Tutu Archive website
Interviewees:
- Prof Harold Short, Professor of Humanities Computing and Director
of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College
London
- Prof Dame Janet L Nelson, Professor of Medieval History,
immediate past president of the Royal Historical Society, and
Director of two projects in collaboration with CCH
- Prof Charlotte Roueché, Professor of Classical and
Byzantine Greek and Director of three projects involving CCH as
collaborators:
- Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity
- Inscriptions of Aphrodisias
- Prosopography of the Byzantine World
Duration: Circa 4.30 minutes (loose news
edit)
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