A2A: The development of a strand in the national archives network

Customer Focus and Marketing in Archive Service Delivery: Theory and practice 1

“…In 1998, jointly with the HMC and the British Library, the PRO launched Access to Archives (A2A), a massive project to retroconvert the catalogues of English archival holdings. 56 e-Learning. The first task of our new education department in 1997 was to create online resources for schools under the banner of the Learning Curve educational website.…”

Platformizing the Past: The Social Media Logic of Archival Digitization

“…Moreover, the A2A initiative extends financial support to archives with regional significance, thereby ensuring the availability of a diverse and abundant pool of resources accessible to all interested parties. The standardization of archival descriptions within this framework further enhances the ease of access and facilitates research (Flynn et al, 2001). Various other archives, inspired by the British model, have also adopted similar online portals or network systems.…”