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Navigational Aids for the History of Science, Technology, and the Environment Project

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The Navigational Aids for the History of Science, Technology, and the Environment Project (NAHSTE) was a research archives/manuscripts cataloguing project based at the University of Edinburgh. Following a proposal led by Arnott Wilson in 1999,[1] the project received £261,755 funding from the Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP) from 2000 until 2002.[2][3]

The project was designed to access a variety of outstanding collections of archives and manuscripts held at the three partner Higher Education Institutions (HEIs); the University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow and Heriot-Watt University and to make them accessible on the Internet. The project additionally included linkages to related records held by non-HEI collaborators.[4]

Descriptions of the material conform to ISAD(G) (Second edition), whilst information about key individuals conform to ISAAR(CPF). Catalogues were tagged using the Encoded Archival Description XML standard.[1]

Although the project was completed in 2002, the resulting web service continues to be hosted at Edinburgh.

References

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  1. ^ a b Wilson, Arnott. "A NAHSTE Experience: Edinburgh's History of Science, Technology and the Environment Project". Archived from the original on 13 July 2006. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
  2. ^ Mowatt, Ian (September 2002). Stroud, Nick (ed.). "New Horizons" (PDF). Edinburgh Bits - Bulletin of C&IT Services. 13 (1). University of Edinburgh: 7.
  3. ^ "RSLP Projects : Navigational Aids for the History of Science, Technology and the Environment (NAHSTE)". Archived from the original on 13 June 2007. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
  4. ^ "NAHSTE Project 2002". University of Edinburgh. Archived from the original on 1 October 2006. Retrieved 3 December 2006. NAHSTE-overview
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