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		<title>UPDATED: The Discovery service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have released an update to our new, beta search facility.

Latest updates to Discovery &#8211; August 2012
Following user testing and feedback, Discovery has been updated to include new features and services.
Newly added:

Home Guard records for Durham – descriptions, images and new process for ordering closed records

You can now:

save your search query by copying the url, to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2012/08/the-discovery-service/</link>
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		<title>Visualised: Timelines of Government departments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This visualisation shows the departments responsible for foreign affairs from 1945 to the present. Clicking on the department names will take you to the corresponding department in Discovery.


Have you ever wondered what happened to those departments that suddenly disappeared years ago? Or perhaps you are trying to find out which department took over the work of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2012/08/foreign-affairs-timeline/</link>
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		<title>Collections on a map</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This tool is the first stage in our plan to provide map-based access to our records. It allows you to search for places and to identify records relating to them.


Our first release includes a wide range of images taken from our records, including the Dixon-Scott photographs of Britain (1926 – 1948), the National Coal Board’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2012/04/collections-on-a-map/</link>
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		<title>The Hacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[See the results of The National Archives&#8217; first hack day. 
At the close of the event, 11 teams opted to present. They were:

Jonathan Tweed and Kai En Ong (with Michael Smethurst, Faith Mowbray and Paul Rissen) produced the winning hack, a website using the @ukwarcabinet twitter feed to help support the exploration of wartime Cabinet Papers.
Tim Hodson [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2012/04/the-hacks/</link>
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		<title>Datasets for &#8216;Hack on the Record&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend of 24 and 25 March, The National Archives is holding its first hack day.

We will be opening up the archives to web developers and designers to encourage them to gather and exchange ideas and make use of The National Archives’ data and documents.
We want to work with developers who share our interest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2012/02/datasets-for-hack-day-hack-on-the-record/</link>
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		<title>The National Archives&#8217; API</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Developers can explore our Discovery service using our new API (application programming interface).
The National Archives has designed a RESTful interface that allows developers to query the search engine and our Catalogue database within the Discovery service application programmatically, and returns results in XML for further processing.
The service is offered as a beta with some functionality still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2011/09/the-national-archives-api/</link>
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		<title>Datasets &#8211; UPDATED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have updated our variety of datasets, which are based on records and information held by The National Archives, and encourage web developers to experiment with new applications, online tools and ways of visualising data.

We will continue to add more datasets to this post, so do revisit Labs for new data to use. We will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2011/07/datasets/</link>
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		<title>Popethink &#8211; Jo Pugh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month, I was the guest of Yahoo at their Openhack event in Bucharest.

A lot of very clever developers produced an extraordinary range of hacks over the 24 hour event – you can read about some of them here.
I’m not any sort of hacker, I was there to talk about history. But it seemed churlish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2011/06/popethink-jo-pugh/</link>
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		<title>Our new Discovery service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have recently released the beta version of our Discovery service, our new record search.
Discovery is an innovative and easily usable way for you to explore our collection. This is a first release, which we will continue to develop, so it will be some time before it replaces the existing Catalogue and DocumentsOnline system.
There is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2011/04/our-new-discovery-service/</link>
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		<title>Linked data PRONOM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PRONOM is The National Archives’ technical registry – we plan to release the data it holds, in a linked open data format, and make it easier to reuse.


Update &#8211; 10/04/2013
Development of Linked Data PRONOM has been on hold for a while, but we will be in a position to restart work on Linked Data PRONOM [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2011/01/linked-data-and-pronom/</link>
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		<title>Cabinet papers keywords</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cabinet papers datasets are available to download for web developers.
The National Archives&#8217; Cabinet Papers site offers free access to the complete minutes and memoranda from every Cabinet meeting from 1917 to 1980.
The cabinet papers keywords application shows major figures and concepts extracted from the complete text of the minutes of those meetings and allows the content [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2011/01/cabinet-papers-keywords/</link>
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		<title>Research in 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to my first blog post of 2011, and a belated Happy New Year!
We&#8217;ve learned a lot in our first few months on Labs, and I&#8217;d like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who took the time to try out the beta applications and tell us what you thought. I know that, at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2011/01/research-in-2011/</link>
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		<title>An update to person search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today’s blog entry, I would like to discuss the new enhancements to our person search functionality.
We are continuing to improve and refine this service because the most common search our users carry out is for names of people. We want this search function to be as easy to use, but also as comprehensive, as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2010/12/new-an-update-to-person-search/</link>
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		<title>Web archiving: what we do and why</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the major innovative preservation activities which The National Archives has developed in recent years has been to archive central government websites.
We do this because government websites contain unique data which would be lost if we did not capture it. Originally we saw websites as a publications medium, but, over the past five years, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2010/11/web-archiving-what-we-do-and-why/</link>
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		<title>Launching &#8216;Domesday on a map&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I’m going to talk about our experiences with launching the prototype Domesday tool.
I’d like to apologise for any issues you may have experienced when visiting our Labs site recently. The level of interest has been far greater than we expected, and our Labs site couldn’t quite meet the demand.
All the prototypes on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2010/10/launching-domesday-on-a-map/</link>
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		<title>Was your home town mentioned in Domesday Book?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today’s blog, I’d like to discuss our new interactive map service that provides easier access to Domesday’s information.
Using the interactive map
A current OpenStreetMap map shows all of the places which are mentioned in Domesday. Clicking on a place brings up the place’s name in 1086, so you will be able to find out your home town’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2010/10/home-town-in-domesday/</link>
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		<title>Domesday on a map</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
This tool enables you to search and browse over 90% of the places mentioned in Domesday Book.





The easiest way to get started is to simply search by place name or post code; from there you can zoom and pan around the map to further investigate Domesday. We have also created two experimental functions that indicate places [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2010/10/domesday-on-a-map/</link>
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		<title>User-centered design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My topic for discussion this week is The National Archives’ commitment to involving our users in the design process for our Rediscovering the Record project.
Here at The National Archives, we understand the importance of involving you, our users, in the development of new services to make sure that they are as usable and useful as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2010/09/user-centered-design/</link>
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		<title>Maps and geo-referencing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
This week, I am going to talk about the challenges we are experiencing with map-based applications, and also say something about the work we’ve been doing on identifying places in our records – a process called geo-referencing
Mapping
We know that some our early efforts have not been as usable as we would hope. Obviously, the issues [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2010/09/maps-and-geo-referencing/</link>
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		<title>16/06/11 UPDATE &#8211; Improving search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have further developed our new taxonomy allowing users to filter search results using subject categories.


An automatic categorising tool allows individual document descriptions to be tagged using a list of subject categories (see below). Subject categorisation is no longer limited to collection level descriptions but now extends across metadata for files, boxes and bundles held [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2010/09/improving-search/</link>
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		<title>Improving your search experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today’s blog, I’d like to share our plans for improving our search facility
As part of Rediscovering the Record we are planning to improve the ways in which you can search. The National Archives can search for about 30 million records. These include the 11 million descriptions of documents we hold at Kew and records [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2010/08/improving-your-search-experience/</link>
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		<title>Rediscovering the Record</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
This is my first blog on our Rediscovering the Record project. I want to first of all describe the overall thinking behind the project, and in the next few months I will look in more detail at some of the improvements we will be making.
The project will create new, improved and innovative ways of accessing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2010/08/rediscovering-the-record/</link>
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		<title>Valuation Office map finder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Use this tool to identify and order Valuation Office Survey maps of England and Wales from 1910 to 1915. Our Catalogue contains descriptions of nearly 50,000 Valuation Office Survey maps and this innovative tool provides a simple way to identify and order a map without having to visit The National Archives. The process previously required [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2010/04/valuation-office-map-finder/</link>
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