The Navigational Aids for the History of Science, Technology, and the Environment Project (NAHSTE) was a research archives/manuscripts cataloguing project based at the

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. Following a proposal led by Arnott Wilson in 1999, the project received £261,755 funding from the

Research Support Libraries Programme Ronald Milne Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE (born 14 February 1957) is a British librarian and administrator whose work has been particularly associated with the development of library research collections and with issues of di ...

(RSLP) from 2000 until 2002. 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,

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and

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and to make them accessible on the

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. The project additionally included linkages to related records held by non-HEI collaborators. NAHSTE-overview Descriptions of the material conform to ISAD(G) (Second edition), whilst information about key individuals conform to

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. Catalogues were tagged using the

Encoded Archival Description Encoded Archival Description (EAD) is a standard for encoding descriptive information regarding archival records.Pitti, D (2012). "Encoded Archival Description (EAD)". In Bates, Marcia J., (ed.) ''Understanding Information Retrieval Systems: Manage ...

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

References

External links

* - homepage with links to online collections. Index (publishing) University of Edinburgh Open-access archives {{UK-university-stub