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ARTHUR BURNS: Hello.

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My name's Arthur Burns, and
I'm the academic director

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of the Georgian Papers Programme
at King's College London.

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I'm here to introduce the
transcription project we're

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running on the medical
papers of George III,

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some of these which I think are
among the most exciting things

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we're currently doing in the
Georgian Papers Programme.

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Now as many of you will know,
this programme is a remarkable

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collaboration between the
Royal Collection Trust,

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King's College London in
the UK, and in the US,

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its primary partner's the
Omohundro Institute of Early

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American History & Culture,
and William & Mary.

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And the aim of the project
is to make available

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online in digital form all
the Georgian Papers which

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are currently stored in the
Round Tower at Windsor Castle.

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That's more than 400,000
pages of documents.

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One of the challenges we
face in the Georgian Papers

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is that although this is a
very famous collection, one

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with very many important
documents in it,

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it's actually not that
well-known in detail.

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Perhaps 15% of it has been
published in the past,

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and more generally,
there is no catalogue

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of any significance available
for much of the collection.

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And that's going to
present a challenge for us

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as we try and make the
collection searchable.

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One solution to that is our
transcription programme,

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which by transcribing the
content of the documents will

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enable us to make them
searchable online.

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