Project Archives

Volunteers are using a bi-lingual online platform to tag, index and transcribe digital copies of archive collections to help make them more accessible for future researchers and wider celebration.

Working collaboratively to address the requirements for the preservation and management of digital records across Wales. The objective is to support digital preservation in a collaborative manner, whilst taking account of individual organisational imperatives.

Dedicated to addressing the gaps in archives that impacted marginalised communities in Wales, with the goal of weaving a more balanced narrative. The core objective of the project was to engage with underrepresented communities to create a collection that captured their thoughts, stories, and lived experiences.

Increasing capacity to preserve born digital information, and assisting local authority archive services to deliver against digital preservation requirements in the Archive Accreditation Standard.

Improving awareness of, and access to cultural collections for people within Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. We wanted to create a strong foundation for developing collections with those communities, ensuring that their lived experience is an integral part of our national record.

Identifying records at risk during the Covid-19 pandemic, and to facilitate a longer-term strategy to support the rescue of records in the future. An online toolkit was developed and published, to house resources and guidance about records surveying and risk monitoring.

More than 1,100 Welsh tithe maps were repaired and digitised for this project. Volunteers working online helped to transcribe around 27,000 entries in the accompanying tithe apportionment documents, linking them to the relevant field numbers on the maps.

Year 9 pupils from Sandfields Comprehensive School used archival resources such as photographs, film, maps and oral history extracts relating to the steelworks and estate to produce a touring exhibition celebrating the history of the Sandfields estate in Port Talbot.