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LMA Ditches “Metropolitan”
On Monday the 5th of August 2024, the second largest archive service in the UK (and member of AIM25) will change its name in order to attract new visitors and clarify the nature of its extensive collections. London Metropolitan Archives, which is owned and managed by the City of London Corporation, will drop ‘Metropolitan’ from […]
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The British Library recently published an interim report on the major cyber incident that closed its services in October 2023. As at May 2024, the Library’s digital services – including the catalogues and UK Web Archive – are still either off-line or have minimal functionality. Ransomware attackers removed some 600 GB of files including user […]
View Full ArticleXRchiving 2 conference
The second XRchiving conference took place at King’s College London on 20 April 2024. The event brought together archivists, town planners, architects, and software designers to discuss the use of Extended Reality by the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector. Extended Reality technologies include virtual reality and augmented reality, in which virtual experiences are […]
View Full ArticleYerusha Project
AIM25 is a major partner in the ongoing Yerusha Project, which launched after the Covid pandemic. Funded by the Rothschild Foundation, it comprises a research engine to cross-search descriptions of archives across Europe relating to Jewish history and culture. AIM25 contributed more than 700 catalogues to the search portal from members including UCL, the Imperial […]
View Full ArticleSoft Launch of New Site
Member Institutions are invited to check their collection level data (imported from the old site) to check for data requiring updates. If you don’t have a login contact info@maxcommunications.co.uk. For OAI PMH data harvesting to work (for inclusion on the Archives Hub site) institutions need to fill in the minimum ISAD(g) fields for the Institution.
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