Guy Grannum 23 November 2012 Discovery: Update

What is Discovery? The National Archives new catalogue launched in Beta in March 2011 more robust and integrated system to manage current and future data and storage needs to host, search and display many different databases and datasets consistent and seamless user experience three main ways to find information in Discovery: search, browse and tags

Since the last Catalogue Day update … Ongoing fixes, refreshing views and improvements which include: o Search results Simple view of search results New filters By collection level For closed / retained records Record opening date Save searches o Advanced search Search by former reference By collection For closed / retained records Record opening date 3

Update continued … Registration and user accounts o Tags o Bookmarks Suggest a correction form Order documents onsite from within Discovery Added DocumentsOnline data o Preview images o Added shopping basket to order digitised records o Closed DocumentsOnline New databases o digital-accessions => Home Guard Browse o Browse by catalogue order 4

Planning for closing the Catalogue 5

Key issues Search results o Sort in date order o Sort in catalogue order o Review relevance scores Quality of data o Prioritising activities for fixing data Structured searches o Wills & WWI army medal index cards Browse o Review amount of visible text o Review layout 6

Rest of year Ongoing bug fixes and general improvements Review of layout Implement sort order (catalogue and date) Review of basic search and relevancy Foreign Office reference converter (display images of indexes and translate former references to TNA references) Develop structured searches for online collections (wills and WWI army medal index cards) Planning for including Finding Archives data 7