Catalogue day
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.
