The
This
archive has been established by the Berkshire Heritage Environment Forum and
aims to provide a mechanism whereby individuals, local societies and
institutions across the county can make available to the public electronic
images of photographs and documents as well as transcriptions and translations
of original documents so that they can be accessed from a single index,
although being located on a wide range of actual websites.
The general
principle is simple. Each electronic document identified for the archive needs
to have a registered 'owner' and a summary description. These two items,
together with a hyperlink which links the index to the electronic document
should be sent to a central registrar who will add the information to the index
which is published as a pdf (ie
a document in portable document format). The general public may then download
the index, search it for items of possible interest and then click on the
hyperlink to display the item selected.
The
electronic document will need to have a standard filename if it is held on a
website other than the owners. The standard format is BRK0-xxxx-yyyy-yyyy where
xxxx is a four letter code assigned to the owner and yyyy-yyyy is an eight character name assigned by the owner.
For a list of owners CLICK HERE
To look at
the current index CLICK
HERE