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| Art |
Resources relating to art and artists and archives |
| Archival Description |
Resources relating to standards for describing archives |
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| British History |
Resources relating to the history of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland |
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| C |
| Catalogues and Finding Aids |
Resources that make catalogues and finding aids available online |
| Cataloguing |
Projects and initiatives that produce descriptions of archival collections |
| Children's history |
Resources relating to children's history and archives |
| Conservation |
The repair or restoration of damaged or deteriorated archival material |
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| Date |
Starting date of a project or initiative |
| Date of Entry |
Entry to the Archives Portal |
| Digital Preservation |
Resources that aim to prevent the decay of digital, electronic or online archives |
| Digitisation |
Projects and initiatives relating to the production of electronic facsimiles of archives |
| Directories |
Online resources that provide contact details and other information about archival related organisations or individuals |
| Discussion Lists |
Online communities where interested individuals can discuss archive related issues |
| Domains |
Featured resources will relate to archives, libraries or museums. A resource may relate to all three |
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| EAD |
Encoded Archival Description |
| East Midlands |
The English regions of Leicestershire and Rutland, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire. Represented by the East Midlands Museums Libraries and Archives Council |
| East of England |
The English regions Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Herefordshire, Bedfordshire. Represented by the East of England Museums Libraries and Archives Council |
| Education and Learning |
Projects that seek to use archives in informal and formal learning |
| England |
Resources relating to English history and archives |
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| Film and Video |
Resources relating to film and video archive collections |
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| G |
| Genealogy |
Resources for the study or investigation or ancestry and family history |
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| H |
| House History |
Resources for the study or investigation of homes and history in the United Kingdom |
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| International Collections |
Resources relating to international archives or the history of countries outside the United Kingdom |
| Ireland |
Resources relating to Irish history and archives |
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| Journals |
Online academic published resources |
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| Keyword |
A word or phrase that describes an archive resource or project |
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| L |
| Labour History |
Resources relation to archives and labour history and labour groups |
| Local History |
Resources relating to families or researching geneology |
| London History |
Resources relating to London's history and archives |
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| Mapping archive collections |
Projects that gather information about where archives are and the services that archive repositories give |
| Medical Archives |
Resources relating to medical and health archives |
| Music and History |
Projects relating to Musical history and archives |
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| Name |
Title given to a resource or initiative by the parent organisation |
| National Library Catalogues |
Links to the major library collections |
| Networking collections |
Projects and initiatives that aim to create a single access point for information about archives that are held in more than one place |
| North East |
The English regions of Northumberland and County Durham. Represented by the North East Museums Libraries and Archives Council |
| North West |
The English regions of Lancashire, Cumbria and Cheshire. Represented by the North East Museums Libraries and Archives Council |
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| Oral History |
Resources relating to sound and oral history archive collections |
| Organisation |
The body that is administrating or supporting the profiled resource, initiative or project |
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| Performing Arts |
Resources relating to archives and the performing arts |
| Photography |
Resources relating to archives and photography and photographic collections |
| Political History |
Resources relating to Political history and archives |
| Preservation |
Preventing or delaying further degradation of collections |
| Professional Organisations |
Specialized archive related organisations |
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| Records management |
Resources relating to the management and administration of archives |
| Records Management (Electronic) |
Preservation and management of records created in an electronic format |
| Region |
A geographical area |
| Religion |
Resources relating to archives and religion or religious communities |
| Repository Management |
Resources that explore aspects of running an archive service |
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| Science Archives |
Resources relating to science and scientific institutions and archives |
| Scotland |
Resources relating to Scottish history and archives |
| SGML |
Standard Generalized Markup Language |
| Social Inclusion and Diversity |
Projects that seek to reach out to new archive users and make archives available to all people, regardless of background |
| South East |
The English regions of Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Sussex, Surrey, Kent and Buckinghamshire. Represented by the South East Museums Libraries and Archives Council |
| South West |
The English regions of Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Dorset. Represented by the South West Museums Libraries and Archives Council |
| Standards |
Resources that create guidance for levels of provision archives services may seek to achieve |
| Status |
An indicator of the current development position a project or resources is in |
| Survey of collections |
Details of the contents and locations of archive collections relating to a particular theme |
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| Teaching Resources |
Online sources prepared by archival institutions for educational use |
| Thesauri |
Controlled vocabularies relevant to archival description |
| Training and Development |
A list of courses and institutions providing training relating to archives and the archival profession |
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| Wales |
Resources relating to Welsh history and archives |
| Website |
Online location of an archive resource or project |
| West Midlands |
The English regions of Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire. Represented by the West Midlands Museums, Libraries and Archives Council |
| Women's History |
Resources relating to women's history and archives |
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| Yorkshire and Humber |
The Yorkshire ridings of East Riding, North Riding, West Riding and York. Represented by the Yorkshire Museums Libraries and Archives Council. |
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