A2A: The development of a strand in the national archives network

Journal of the Society of Archivists

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 177-191

  Flynn, Sarah J A ^a   Hillyard, Matthew ^b   Stockting, Bill ^b  

^a THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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EID: 0035538395     PISSN: 00379816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00379810120081127     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. National Council on Archives, Archives On-Line: the establishment of a United Kingdom archival network (1998), available at 〈http://nca.archives.org.uk/ONLINE01.htm〉, section 2.8.
2. National Council on Archives, British Archives: the way forward (2000), available at 〈http://nca. archives.org.uk/brarchs.htm〉, section 5.1.4.
3. See 〈http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk/〉. For SCAN see 〈http://www.scan.org.uk/〉; for the Archives Hub 〈http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/〉; and for AIM25 〈http://www.aim25.ac.uk/〉.
4. Admittedly for the UK as a whole: see Archives On-Line, section 6.6.
5. For the establishment of Regional Archive Councils see Victor Gray, 'The English regions: the archival dimension', JSA, vol 21 (2000), pp 153-157.
6. See Archives On-Line, section 3.
7. Also known as the PODS project. The participating repositories were Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Record Service, Birmingham City Archives, the British Library's Oriental and India Office Collections Department, Hampshire Record Office, London Metropolitan Archives, Northamptonshire Record Office, and York City Archive Department.
8. Managed by HM Treasury in consultation with the Cabinet Office, the ISB aims to provide assistance towards the cost of innovative public projects. See 〈http://www.isb.gov.uk/〉.
9. 2nd edn (2000).
10. (London, 1997).
11. HLF's strategic priorities are now undergoing revision: see 〈http://www.nhmf.org.uk/dimages/Horizons.pdf〉.
12. At the time of writing (August 2001), 10 bids to HLF have been successful.
13. Tables 1 and 2 are based on information supplied by project contacts to the central team for use on the A2A website in summer 2000.
14. However, for practical purposes project management has been undertaken by London Metropolitan Archives.
15. David Kelso, 'Tracking railway archives - TRAP', Society of Archivists' Newsletter, no 137 (December 2000), p 11.
16. For ARCHON see 〈http://www.hmc.gov.uk/archon/archon.htm〉; and for the NRA 〈http://www.hmc. gov.uk/nra/nra2.htm〉.
17. Available at 〈http://www.pro.gov.uk/archives/A2A/cataloguingstandards.htm〉.
18. (Ottawa, 1996).
19. UNESCO, UNESCO Thesaurus: a structured list of descriptors for indexing and retrieving literature in the fields of education, science, social and human science, culture, communication and information, 2nd edn (Paris, 1995).
20. Available at 〈http://www.pro.gov.uk/archives/A2A/AuthorityStandards.htm〉.
21. (London, 1998).
22. For the PRO see 〈http://www.pro.gov.uk/archives/Unesco/Introduction.htm〉; for NDAD 〈http://ndad.ulcc.ac.uk〉, 〈http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/unesco/〉 and Peter Garrod, 'Use of the UNESCO Thesaurus for archival subject indexing at UK NDAD', JSA, vol 21 (2000), pp 37-54; for AIM25 〈http://www.aim25.ac.uk/search/thesaurus/subjects/list0.htm〉.
23. For the PRO see 〈http://www.pro.gov.uk/archives/Unesco/Introduction.htm〉; for NDAD 〈http://ndad.ulcc.ac.uk〉, 〈http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/unesco/〉 and Peter Garrod, 'Use of the UNESCO Thesaurus for archival subject indexing at UK NDAD', JSA, vol 21 (2000), pp 37-54; for AIM25 〈http://www.aim25.ac.uk/search/thesaurus/subjects/list0.htm〉.
24. For the PRO see 〈http://www.pro.gov.uk/archives/Unesco/Introduction.htm〉; for NDAD 〈http://ndad.ulcc.ac.uk〉, 〈http://www.ulcc.ac.uk/unesco/〉 and Peter Garrod, 'Use of the UNESCO Thesaurus for archival subject indexing at UK NDAD', JSA, vol 21 (2000), pp 37-54; for AIM25 〈http://www.aim25.ac.uk/search/thesaurus/subjects/list0.htm〉.
25. See 〈http://dublincore.org〉. Dublin Core is also a basis for the Government Metadata Framework: 〈http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/egif/meta.html)〉.
26. See 〈http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/〉. For further discussion of EAD, see Meg Sweet, 'The internationalisation of EAD (Encoded Archival Description)', and Dorothy Johnston, 'From typescript finding aids to EAD (Encoded Archival Description), JSA, vol 22 (2001), pp 33-38 and 39-52.
27. See 〈http://lcweb.loc.gov/ead/〉. For further discussion of EAD, see Meg Sweet, 'The internationalisation of EAD (Encoded Archival Description)', and Dorothy Johnston, 'From typescript finding aids to EAD (Encoded Archival Description), JSA, vol 22 (2001), pp 33-38 and 39-52.
28. See 〈http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml.html〉.
29. See 〈http://www.textmlserver.com/〉.
30. Many other systems, such as word-processing packages, combine the two - leading inevitably to incompatibility issues when it comes to sharing data with others using alternative systems, or even different versions of the same system.
31. See 〈http://www.w3.org/DOM/〉.
32. Evaluation of individual A2A projects has been planned by project leaders.