Jane and I went to the National Council on Archives’ one-day conference in Birmingham yesterday. There were some excellent talks by users of archives, particularly that by Dr Dennis Wheeler of the University of Sunderland. He was describing the CLIWOC project, which is using naval logbooks to chart weather conditions in the world’s oceans between 1750 and 1850.

Tomorrow I’ll be attending the Infrastructure Group meeting of aUK (Archives UK). This group is trying to find a way forward for integrated cross-searching of the UK’s various online archive networks, such as:

This is the first posting of the Archives Hub team’s blog. We plan to use this to post news about the activities and interests of the members of the Archives Hub team.