Guy Grannum23 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 searcheso Advanced search

• Search by former reference• By collection• For closed / retained records• Record opening date

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Update continued …• Registration and user accounts

o Tagso Bookmarks

• Suggest a correction form• Order documents onsite from within Discovery• Added DocumentsOnline data

o Preview imageso Added shopping basket to order digitised recordso Closed DocumentsOnline

• New databaseso digital-accessions => Home Guard

• Browseo Browse by catalogue order

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Planning for closing the Catalogue

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Key issues• Search results

o Sort in date ordero Sort in catalogue ordero Review ‘relevance’ scores

• Quality of datao Prioritising activities for ‘fixing’ data

• Structured searcheso Wills & WWI army medal index cards

• Browseo Review amount of visible texto Review layout

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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

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