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Caroline Kimbell

April 2015

Commercial Partnerships atThe UK National Archives:Protecting Staff and Services from cuts

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Commercial Income Breakdown

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Licensing Income 2013-14

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Licensed partners

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1939 National Register

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Design for Who Lived Here? Concept App

Design for Location Section of Household Transcription Results Page

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State Papers Online1509-1714Cengage Gale

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Other approaches are available!

We fund & deliver – cost-effective projects or ones which require tight Collection care

Licensee funds & deliver – commercially viable projectsmainly genealogy/ legal/ mapping

Grant funds & we deliver – social history, or of general benefit(e.g. historical log-books for environmental data)

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These approaches have only digitised c.8% of the collection

Source: Deloitte analysis; TNA Interviews

Ease of

digitisation

Size of series

Customer demand

Low

High Easy

Hard

Small

Large

Internal/ Funded Digitisation

External Digitisation e.g. Census data, Medal Rolls, Register of Seamen, Immigration & Passenger

lists

e.g. Census data, Medal Rolls, Register of Seamen, Immigration & Passenger

lists

BT 27

AIR 27

HO 2

PROB 11

ADM 53

ADM 159

E 31

C 61

e.g. Domesday Book, Ships Logs for climate change data,

Chancery Rolls, Cabinet Papers

e.g. Domesday Book, Ships Logs for climate change data,

Chancery Rolls, Cabinet Papers

RG 14

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