The BBC Monitoring Service collection at IWM Duxford: investigating and evaluating its heritage and academic value and how it can be made accessible

英国广播公司监控服务的成绩单收藏占据了1500米的架子，这是20世纪30年代在达克斯福德IWM的前英国皇家空军建筑。它代表了数百万小时的收听和抄录广播的输出——这是一个巨大的记录二战和冷战期间（1939年至1980年）国际广播输出的打字记录集。该网络将汇集来自二十世纪历史、BBC机构历史、宣传和情报、无线电研究、翻译和语言研究以及数字人文等领域的档案从业者和研究人员，共同探索这一庞大馆藏的潜力，为其使用和推广提供专业知识，并研究进一步研究和合作的可能性。英国广播公司监测服务的工作范围是国际性的，研究网络将反映这一点，包括来自世界各地学术机构和同等档案馆的代表，从而为以后涉及国际合作的项目开放收藏。应该指出的是，英国广播公司监测服务的世界广播摘要/每日文摘-世界各国每天广播的新闻摘要-已经被学者使用，他们从20世纪70年代开始就可以在世界各地的图书馆中通过缩微胶片获得这些摘要。IWM的收藏包括未经编辑的原始文本，从中得出总结。因此，拟议的网络的重点将放在如何利用IWM持有的大量未开发的材料上。该网络将探索馆藏，提出提供更多访问和理解其内容的方法，并鼓励广泛和多样化的用户参与。该网络还将寻求发展未来的研究方向，以探索这一资源的全部潜力。这些目标将通过一系列涉及四个关键主题的四个多学科讲习班来实现：BBC监控与世界：该服务及其在国际政治和外交中的作用事务处在翻译和情报收集方面面临的困难；3. 3 . BBC监测服务作为一个机构；档案馆作为一个实体和数字技术提供的机会，允许更多的公众访问这些藏品，增加对BBC监测服务输出的理解，并提供新的教育资源。该网络更广泛的目标是建立和促进研究人员的收藏价值；鼓励人们认识到这些藏品是英国遗产的重要组成部分，并探索这些藏品的数字化潜力。为了实现这一目标，该网络将寻求与研究人员建立国际关系；在国际管理研究所网站上建立一个专门的微型网站，并在学术期刊和大众报刊上公布讲习班的成果。该网络将由IWM的研究主管Suzanne Bardgett和Jean Seaton教授领导。Suzanne Bardgett强调了这些藏品对学术界的潜在价值，并共同指导了这一主题的两位博士。Jean Seaton教授是BBC的官方历史学家，也是威斯敏斯特大学媒体史教授。咨询小组成员包括：伦敦国王学院希拉·安德森教授；剑桥大学克里斯托弗·安德鲁教授；彼得·布希博士，伦敦国王学院；希拉里·富特教授，雷丁大学；罗伯特·西特，BBC历史负责人；英国开放大学Alban Webb博士；BBC监测服务主任克里斯·韦斯科特和BBC监测服务业务发展负责人罗西·沃尔夫。BBC是一个忠实的项目合作伙伴。

The BBC Monitoring Service transcripts collection occupies 1500 metres of shelving in a 1930s former RAF building at IWM Duxford. It represents the output of millions of hours of listening and transcribing broadcasts - a colossal collection of typed transcripts documenting international radio outputs during the Second World War and the Cold War, from 1939-1980. The network will bring together archival practitioners and researchers from the fields of twentieth century history, BBC institutional history, propaganda and intelligence, radio studies, translation and language studies, and digital humanities to explore the potential of this vast collection, provide expertise on its use and promotion, and examine possibilities for further research and collaboration. The work of the BBC Monitoring Service is international in scope and the research network will reflect this by involving representatives from academic institutions and equivalent archives worldwide, thus opening up the collection for later projects that involve international collaboration. It should be noted that the BBC Monitoring Service's Summary of World Broadcasts/Daily Digest - daily summaries of the news broadcast by states worldwide - have been used by scholars, who have had access to them on microfiche in libraries worldwide since the 1970s. IWM's collection consists of the raw unedited transcripts from which the summaries were drawn. The proposed network's focus, therefore, will be on the ways in which this very much larger body of unexplored material held by IWM can be used.The network will explore the collection, suggest ways of providing greater access to and understanding of its content, and encourage engagement from a wide and diverse range of users. The network will also seek to develop future research directions to explore the full potential of this resource. These aims will be achieved through a series of four multidisciplinary workshops to address four key themes: 1. BBC Monitoring and the World: the service and its role in international politics and diplomacy 2. The difficulties of translation and intelligence-gathering faced by the Service; 3. The BBC Monitoring Service as an institution;4. The archive as a physical entity and the opportunities presented by digital technologies to allow greater public access to the collection, increasing understanding of the output of the BBC Monitoring Service, and providing new educational resources. The wider aims of the network are to establish and promote the value of the collection for researchers; to encourage recognition of the collection as an important part of British heritage, and to explore the digital potential of the collection.In order to achieve this, the network will seek to build international relationships with researchers; establish a dedicated microsite on the IWM website and publish the outcomes of the workshops in academic journals and the popular press. The network will led by IWM's Head of Research, Suzanne Bardgett, who has highlighted the likely value of the collection to the academic world, and co-supervised two PhDs on the subject, and Professor Jean Seaton, Official Historian of the BBC and Professor of Media History, University of Westminster. The Advisory Group includes: Professor Sheila Anderson, King's College London; Professor Christopher Andrew, Cambridge University; Dr Peter Busch, King's College London; Professor Hilary Footitt, Reading University; Robert Seatter, Head of BBC History; Dr Alban Webb, The Open University; Chris Westcott, Director of BBC Monitoring Service and Rosy Wolfe, Head of Business Development, BBC Monitoring Service. The BBC is a committed Project Partner.