Re: New search facility on UK National Archives website

In message of 24 May, "Chris Phillips" <cgp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Someone has kindly pointed out to me off-list that the UK National
Archives is testing a new search facility on its website:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search/

This covers material from the TNA catalogue, the Access to Archives
Project, the National Register of Archives and some other databases.
The description on the website makes it sound as though these are
completely covered, but I found that it didn't bring up all the
results that the individual search facilities give - in fact it
appeared to bring up less than half the TNA results for one search
term.

I have found another problem. It concerns entries for material that is
on the British Library catalogue. The NRA entry is not the same as the
BL entry and can be wrong. It looks as if someone either transcribed
or scanned in the BL entries and made a series of mistakes.

The BL report that their catalogue entries (on a particular item) are
correct and say that corrections should be made to the NRA catalogue.
The is a bit of a maze to find out where to report such problems. I
have made a report to The National Archives and hope it gets to the
National Register of Archives.

Otherwise the NRA catalogue works well and brings up a whole host of
new information.

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