2020 Archives Update |
The Arts Council England (ACE) and Historic England (HE) are jointly funding a new project to assess strategic options for the ongoing issue of storing archaeological archives. The options appraisal will review existing and future capacity for archaeological archives within England, drawing on previous work undertaken by SMA, FAME, CIfA, ALGAO and Historic England. Existing and possible archive solutions across the country and further afield will be considered, highlighting the potential of each to meet the needs of archive creators, managers and users.
This short survey aims to provide an update to the data collected from previous projects, helping ensure we are looking at options with a realistic understanding of future capacity needs.
We appreciate that current circumstances mean you may not be able to access data and information about organisational archives. We've included an option to comment on your confidence regarding answers where you may have to provide estimates.
This information will be critical to helping form a strategic national response to the archives challenge. As such, it is important that answers provided are a formal organisational response and contact details are provided for any follow up queries.
The survey will close at the end of August 2020.
We're happy to have a chat through the questions if that's any easier, just get in touch with the team via project manager, Manda Forster (manda@digventures.com).
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