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A2A Update, January 2001
Thanks to a lot of hard work from consortium bidders, funding applications
for all 13 A2A projects have now been submitted to the Heritage Lottery
Fund, and the decision of the Fund's Trustees is awaited in due course.
A2A is very pleased to announce that Margaret Procter (Liverpool University
Library), a member of the A2A Steering Group, has taken on responsibility
for A2A quality assurance. Essential to this role is the review and
critical evaluation of A2A's catalogue database from the point of view of
the archival user. Margaret will also be responsible for communications
with the A2A Steering Group, and will be happy to receive any enquiries
appropriate for the attention of the Steering Group. She can be contacted
by email at <[log in to unmask]>. (General enquiries relating to A2A
projects, including training requests, should still be addressed to the A2A
Central Team: <[log in to unmask]>.)
Members of the A2A Central Team are upgrading the A2A catalogue database
(currently available on the A2A website), which will be soon be available
via a sophisticated XML document management system with significantly
enhanced interrogation options. Further developments will be announced as
soon as possible.
A2A is a step towards a virtual national archives catalogue for England and
will make available on the www 8 million catalogue entries for archives
dating from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries and held in national,
local and specialist archives repositories by March 2002. For more details
on this retroconversion initiative, see
<http://www.pro.gov.uk/archives/A2A/> or email <[log in to unmask]>.
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Sarah J A Flynn
Regional Liaison Co-Ordinator, A2A
Public Record Office
Kew
Richmond
Surrey TW9 4DU
Tel (direct line): 020 8392 5328
Fax: 020 8878 8905
Email: [log in to unmask]
www: http://www.pro.gov.uk/archives/A2A/
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