ARTHUR BURNS: Hello.
My name's Arthur Burns, and I'm the academic director
of the Georgian Papers Programme at King's College London.
I'm here to introduce the transcription project we're
running on the medical papers of George III,
some of these which I think are among the most exciting things
we're currently doing in the Georgian Papers Programme.
Now as many of you will know, this programme is a remarkable
collaboration between the Royal Collection Trust,
King's College London in the UK, and in the US,
its primary partner's the Omohundro Institute of Early
American History & Culture, and William & Mary.
And the aim of the project is to make available
online in digital form all the Georgian Papers which
are currently stored in the Round Tower at Windsor Castle.
That's more than 400,000 pages of documents.
One of the challenges we face in the Georgian Papers
is that although this is a very famous collection, one
with very many important documents in it,
it's actually not that well-known in detail.
Perhaps 15% of it has been published in the past,
and more generally, there is no catalogue
of any significance available for much of the collection.
And that's going to present a challenge for us
as we try and make the collection searchable.
One solution to that is our transcription programme,
which by transcribing the content of the documents will
enable us to make them searchable online.