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Digital engagement and archives: creating the Peterloo story
Last November, I wrote a blog post about digital storytelling, outreach and archives, in which I talked about how digitisation has created new and innovative opportunities to connect with audiences...
View ArticleWhat’s life like as a Bridging the Digital Gap trainee?
Greetings and salutations. I’m Jim and I’m a trainee digital archivist. ‘What’s that?’ I hear people ask a lot when I tell them what I do. In simple terms, I look after digital records and ensure they...
View ArticleNew feedback form for our research guides
Research guides are the primary finding aids that we produce for Discovery, our catalogue. There are over 350 of them, covering a diverse range of subjects; they contain useful tools such as...
View ArticleWhat is a seal mould? Introducing record series PRO 23
The Collection Care Department at The National Archives holds an historic collection of moulds taken from our wax seals. Containing some 7,700 items, it is the largest collection of its type in the UK....
View ArticleModelling archival data: an outsider’s perspective
During the past few months, we have been developing an archival data model with the aim of making it flexible for our own potential future needs and accessible for all of our users. (See our previous...
View ArticleManage Your Collections: Introducing the Metadata Mapper
Cataloguing is a fundamental practice that enables access to archives. It creates greater intellectual control over a collection and is a key first step in ensuring a collection is accessible by...
View ArticleOpening up web archives to research and innovation
Last month, I blogged about The National Archives’ collaboration with City, University of London, to visualise data from our collections in new ways. I wrote a second blog post about our collaboration...
View ArticleThe materialities of digitisation
Recently, I have blogged about The National Archives’ collaboration with City, University of London, to visualise data from our collections in new ways, and with the University of Cambridge to enable...
View ArticleDiscovery and the users’ mental model
The first of four blogs about The National Archives’ own digital research projects, starting with a post about how users perceive and engage with Discovery.
View ArticleDigital archiving: the seven pillars of metadata
Two of the key challenges facing The National Archives in the digital age are the need to provide new ways of accessing digital archival records the desire to make digital archival records available...
View ArticleBridging the digital gap
In October this year, we will welcome eight new faces through the door of The National Archives. These new recruits will have three days of induction to begin training as Digital Archive Technicians....
View ArticleDigital archiving: disrupt or be disrupted?
Economist Joseph Schumpeter popularised the term ‘creative destruction’ to describe the theory that technological advances make obsolete not just individual practices but whole philosophies, industries...
View ArticleThe generation game: evolving with the digital record
We’ve had quite a lot of practice at being an archive: we’ve been looking after the public record for over 150 years. Most of the fundamentals of archival practice were...
View ArticleDigitising and conserving black cultural history
I prepared and conserved the Adamah Family Collection before digitisation - a challenging project which required a large scope of treatments…
View ArticlePeace and goodwill to all records
It's that time of year again. The office starts to get quieter, colleagues and customers go on leave, meetings get fewer…
View ArticleIdentifying digital file formats – a collaborative effort
Have you got a file format you can't identify? Send it to PRONOM, an online registry containing details of different digital file formats…
View ArticleCourtroom drama: video records from the Supreme Court
Making video records available via our streaming service is a major evolution in how we present our collections…
View ArticleMaking connections: tracing people through our collection
Since February 2014, we’ve been investigating ways to reveal the connections that tell the real stories of people’s lives…
View ArticleDirty data at the UKAD Forum 2016
The Data Forum is an opportunity for archivists to share ideas for networking collections to make it easier for users to make connections between them…
View ArticleFrom digital dark age to digital enlightenment
We explore the research we've done into managing, preserving and providing access to born-digital records…
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