http://www.scran.ac.uk
Although it hasn't escaped our attention that Fourth of July is American
Independence Day, the champagne corks are popping at SCRAN for an entirely
different reason: we've reached our target of ONE MILLION RECORDS online -
two months before the target date set 5 years ago!
SCRAN has been working towards this staggering number since its birth in
1996 as a Millennium Project. Every single one of the million records is
publicly available, creating a diverse and inspirational resource for
cultural research and education. 125,000 multimedia resources are already
connected to these records, and this number itself is steadily growing.
But don't think that we'll be sitting back on our heels now we've reached
the magic number. Thanks to its pivotal role in managing the RLS
consortium, which has just been awarded a 4million pound NOF grant
<rls.org.uk>, a raft of wide-ranging new projects will find their way on
to SCRAN between now and 2003, expanding our resource base still further.
Many congratulations and thanks to SCRAN staff and our contributors, who
have worked so hard to get these projects online, on-time.
Prof Bruce Royan, CEO, SCRAN (Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network)
http://www.scran.ac.uk/ tel (+44) 131 662 1211 fax(+44) 131 662 1511
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