Useful Links

The English strand of the UK archives network.

The archives of higher education institutions and learned societies within the greater London area.

A national gateway to descriptions of archives in UK universities and colleges.

A project to create a web resource to allow easy searching of collections held by institutions in Wales.

The ARCHON Directory includes contact details for record repositories in the United Kingdom and also for institutions elsewhere in the world which have substantial collections of manuscripts noted under the indexes to the National Register of Archives.

A cross sectoral project to provide a single point of entry for searching performing arts collections in the UK. It is aimed at the research community, plus anyone with an interest in the performing arts.

Identifying and mapping national resources for Caribbean Studies and the history of Black and Asian people in Britain.

A project mapping the music resource of the UK and Ireland.

Records of higher education institutions.

Identifying and developing access to women's history sources in the British Isles.

A guide to the UK film and television archives in the public sector.

A national gateway to missionary collections in the UK.

An integrated catalogue to History of Science records at the Edinburgh, Glasgow and Heriot-Watt Universities.

An electronic gateway to research resources in Northern Ireland.

A project to open up Scotland's archival heritage through a variety of online catalogues and resources.

A web portal supporting collaboration between museums, libraries, and archives in the East of England which contains a directory of museum, archive and library services.

Encoded Archival Description.

We have prepared notes on how the Janus stylesheet transforms EAD data for display on the web.

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names.

We have prepared guidance on how to use the Getty thesaurus.

General International Standard Archival Description, 2nd edition, September 2000.

National Council on Archives rules for the construction of personal, family and place names (1997).

We have prepared notes on how to use the NCA rules to construct name authorities.

UK Archival Thesaurus: a subject thesaurus created for the archive sector in the United Kingdom.

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.