Digital 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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’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...
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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...
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