The Desmond Tutu Digital Archive

(Another ambitious project from the Centre for Computing in the Humanities here at King’s…see other CCH projects at link)

The purpose of the Desmond Tutu Digital Archive project is to create a multimedia digital archive of the personal papers and recordings of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, which will be made available over the internet free of charge. The Archive will be fully interactive, with tools to facilitate access by people of all cultures, all ages and all levels of learning and experience, not only in South Africa but all over the world. The project is fully endorsed and supported by Archbishop Tutu.

A multi-phase project is envisaged: in the first phases, archive materials held in a number of locations in South Africa will be digitised. These include more than 200,000 pages of documents, over 1,000 hours of live audio recordings, potentially hundreds of hours of video and large collections of photographs (link)