Cataloguing projects (UK National Archive)
From the webpage:
The National Archives’ Cataloguing Strategy
The overall objective of our cataloguing work is to deliver more comprehensive and searchable catalogues, thus improving access to public records. To make online searches work well we need to provide adequate data and prioritise cataloguing work that tackles less adequate descriptions. For example, we regard ranges of abbreviated names or file numbers as inadequate.
I was lead to this delightful resource by a tweet from David Underdown, advising that his presentation from National Catalogue Day in 2013 was now onlne.
His presentation along with several others and reports about projects in prior years are available at this projects page.
I thought the presentation titled: Opening up of Litigation: 1385-1875 by Amanda Bevan and David Foster, was quite interesting in light of various projects that want to create new “public” citation systems for law and litigation.
I haven’t seen such a proposal yet that gives sufficient consideration to the enormity of what do you do with old legal materials?
The litigation presentation could be a poster child for topic maps.
I am looking forward to reading the other presentations as well.