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Catalogue day

Friday 28 November 2008, 10:00 - 16:00

Free event!

One-day conference around our records catalogue, a good chance to find out about current projects and developments at The National Archives.

Book online or if you would like to cancel your booking, please email cataloguehelp@nationalarchives.gov.uk

Catalogue day agenda

10:00 -  Welcome

10:10 -  The National Archives Cataloguing Strategy, Louise Craven, Records Management and Cataloguing.

10.20 - Behind the Catalogue: Getting the right data and search to work, Jone Garmendia, Alex Green and Louise Craven, Records Management and Cataloguing.

10:45 -  Registers, indexes and strange old manuscripts: converting trapped data into new catalogue entries, Amanda Bevan, Advice and Records Knowledge.

11.05 -  Break (coffee/tea provided), 15 min.

11.20 - Great deeds and little evidences: cataloguing medieval and early modern property transactions in WARD 2, James Ross

11:40 -  Decoding the mystery of the Foreign Office registry system: the country code project 1906 - 1950, James Cronan, Advice and Records Knowledge.
 
12:00 - Your Archives: The National Archives´ Wiki, Guy Grannum, Advice and Records Knowledge.

12:20 - 13:45 - Lunch break.

13:45 -  User research: the drive behind the development of online services, Gemma Richardson, Strategic Development.

14:05 -  Victorian Women Prisoners, Chris Heather, Advice and Records Knowledge.

14:30 -  Break (coffee/tea provided), 20 min.

14.50 - Dissecting and cataloguing medical officers´ journals in ADM 101, Bruno Pappalardo, Advice and Records Knowledge.

15:10 - Digitisation Projects and Plans, Caroline Kimbell, Business Development.

15:30 -  ´Bread or Blood': Wages, Unemployment and the Vote: reports from across England and Wales in the early 1830s, Paul Carter, Advice and Records Knowledge.
 
15:50 -  Round up and close.