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

英国广播公司监测服务的成绩单收集占据了1500米的货架在20世纪30年代前英国皇家空军在IWM达克斯福德建设。它代表了数百万小时的收听和转录广播的产出-一个巨大的打字记录，记录了1939-1980年第二次世界大战和冷战期间的国际广播产出。该网络将汇集来自二十世纪世纪历史、英国广播公司机构史、宣传和情报、无线电研究、翻译和语言研究以及数字人文学科等领域的档案从业人员和研究人员，以探索这一庞大收藏的潜力，提供关于其使用和推广的专业知识，并探讨进一步研究和合作的可能性。英国广播公司监测处的工作是国际性的，研究网络将反映这一点，让世界各地的学术机构和类似档案馆的代表参加，从而为以后涉及国际合作的项目开放收藏。应该指出的是，BBC监测服务的《世界广播摘要/每日摘要》--世界各国广播新闻的每日摘要--已被学者使用，自20世纪70年代以来，他们就可以在世界各地图书馆的缩微胶片上查阅它们。IWM的收集包括原始的未经编辑的成绩单，从中提取的摘要。因此，拟议的网络将侧重于如何利用国际水资源管理所拥有的大量未经研究的材料，该网络将研究这些材料，提出如何使更多的人获得和了解其内容的建议，并鼓励广泛和不同的用户参与。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四个多学科研讨会来实现，以解决四个关键主题：1。BBC监测和世界：服务及其在国际政治和外交中的作用2。该处在翻译和收集情报方面遇到的困难; 3.英国广播公司监测服务作为一个机构;4。档案馆作为一个物理实体和数字技术提供的机会，使更多的公众访问收集，增加对BBC监测服务的输出的理解，并提供新的教育资源。该网络更广泛的目标是确立和促进收藏品对研究人员的价值;鼓励承认收藏品是英国遗产的重要组成部分，并探索收藏品的数字潜力，为此，该网络将寻求与研究人员建立国际关系;在水资源综合管理网站上建立一个专门的微型网站，并在学术期刊和大众媒体上公布讲习班的成果。该网络将由IWM的研究负责人Suzanne Bardgett领导，他强调了该收藏对学术界的可能价值，并共同监督了两个关于该主题的博士学位，以及BBC官方历史学家兼威斯敏斯特大学媒体史教授Jean Seaton教授。咨询小组包括：伦敦国王学院Sheila安德森教授;剑桥大学Christopher Andrew教授;伦敦国王学院Peter Busch博士;阅读大学Hilary Footitt教授; BBC历史负责人Robert Seatter;开放大学Alban Webb博士; BBC监测服务主任Chris Westcott和BBC监测服务业务发展负责人Rosy Wolfe。英国广播公司是一个坚定的项目合作伙伴。

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.