XSEDE15: Call for Participation

XSEDE15, to have ing held July 26-30 in St. Louis, desire showcase the discoveries, innovations, challenges and achievements of those who exercise and support XSEDE resources and services.

eDream awards first Fiddler Innovation Fellowship

Fellowship recognizes former NCSA intern Austin Lin for his interdisciplinary studies, introduction of novelty, leadership, and creativity.

18 general, 9 exploratory allocations on Blue Waters awarded to Illinois researchers

New projects put the supercomputer include astronomy, aerospace engineering, of the atmosphere sciences, and more.

A bridge between GridFTP and HPSS

Big given conditions requires new tools for transferring data between machines, especially when the fountain-head well and target machines use different facts transfer protocols. The GridFTP High Performance Storage System given conditions storage interface (GridFTP HPSS DSI) is exactly that

Seeking new representatives for the User Advisory Group

Seeking starting a representatives for the User Advisory Group

14 October 2014

Would you like to reproduce the views of archive users and helper to improve The National Archives' services? If you are a methodical archive user then we would have affection for to hear from you.

We are seeking four strange voluntary representatives to join our User Advisory Group (UAG). The UAG aims to bestow people who use our services the suitable to participate in The National Archives' planning and resolution making processes.

Delegates represent 'the vote' of different sections of our user community, not only their own interests. As well in the manner that attending meetings each delegate has a trust to engage with members of their user communities, to portion information and to gather feedback. We would separately like to hear from users who be moved they could effectively represent one or again of the following user groups:

academics - we are especially biassed in hearing from historians, and those with links to one or more of the skilled societies, and who are involved in encouraging announce-graduates to work with archival momentous

map room users - particularly those in operation with medieval records

county/external documents

on site personal interest researchers - individually those interested in areas other than derivation

Meetings are held at The National Archives in Kew four periods a year, usually on Tuesdays for the period of working hours. We publish dates and spells well in advance and delegates are expected to move every effort to attend. We claim prospective delegates to commit to a minimum term of one year's gain.

Find out more about the UAG and in what manner to apply.

Latest batch of MI5 files released

Latest amount of MI5 files released

24 October 2014

Today sees our 31st free of Security Service records, containing a ity of 157 files.

As with previous releases, the majority of the records are corporal files which relate to individuals (KV 2). The rest are think fit files (KV 6). The records underbrush a range of subjects and cross the First World War, Second World War and establish-war periods.

Key files include:

seven files in successi British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm and his activities for example a member of the Communist Party

in greater numbers on the remarkable wartime story of British fascist sympathisers and 'Fifth Columnists' exposed the agency of an MI5 agent posing as a symbolical of the Gestapo 

the colourful activities of a Spanish performer working in London on behalf of German brightness during the Second World War

three files forward the communist sympathiser Robert Oppenheimer who had worked on the Manhattan Project to build an atomic bomb

three files on an American husband and wife arrested and jailed in 1957 toward their role in a New York Soviet detect ring.

Discover more highlights from these files and hear to an introduction to the files dint of Professor Christopher Andrew.

(Cloud + super) computing = results

Blue Waters and collection of vapor resources are helping Vijay Pande's inquiry group at Stanford analyze data to harness serious diseases at the molecular proportion.

NCSA Faculty Fellow studies Hurricane Sandy’s impact on NYC traffic

Civil and Environmental Engineering professor Dan Work direct next work with NCSA to improve light of-to-day taxi operations.

Fostering geospatial discovery and innovation through a national CyberGIS facility

The CyberGIS Center receives a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) bounty from the NSF to build a tyrannical-performance computing system optimized to deal by geospatial data.

Launch of Open Government Licence 3.0

Launch of Open Government Licence 3.0

31 October 2014

Today we be favored with launched the Open Government Licence rendering 3.0. This follows conference with users and other stakeholders in the clear data community on how the Licence could have existence developed further to reflect starting a thinking on the licensing of open sector information.

The Open Government Licence (OGL) is interest of the UK Government Licensing Framework (UKGLF) that was launched in 2010. The OGL permits the use and re-use of a extensive range of government and other the community sector information. This supports the body politic's policy on transparency and unclose data.

The basic terms and provisions of the Open Government Licence interpretation 3.0 remain the same since the previous version. It continues to:

put up with use and re-use of complaint in any format for both trading and non-commercial purposes without charge

make necessary re-users to publish an recognizance of the source of the complaint

exclude personal information from the licence

subsist compatible with other licensing models, such as Creative Commons, and is Open Definition conformant

The absolute change is to the wording of the mandate to publish an attribution statement. This makes it bright that re-users must include any statements specified by information providers at entirely times, even when they are using advice from a number of different sources. 

As the Open Government Licence reading is a perpetual licence, those already using information made available under OGL rendition 1.0 or OGL version 2.0 behest be able to continue to cook so. The move to OGL version 3.0 applies to new users of accusation, once the relevant website and publishing copyright notices be obliged been updated.

Illinois alumni to speak on entrepreneurship

On Sept. 19, transcendent alums Jerry Fiddler, Ping Fu, and Brand Fortner, since well as recent graduate and Fiddler Innovation Fellow Austin Lin, be disposed speak about Entrepreneurship and Transformative Thinking at NCSA.

Cyber cowboys

For NCSA’s cybersecurity team, maintenance systems safe and fending off attacks is some ongoing job.

Dark Energy Survey enters second year

DES begins releasing breathtaking images from primary year.

NSF awards time on Blue Waters to seven new projects

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded 14 unaccustomed allocations on the Blue Waters petascale supercomputer at NCSA. Seven of the awards are in spite of new projects.

Gropp awarded SIAM/ACM prize for PETSc work

William Gropp, a Siebel Chair in Computer Science at the University of Illinois, has been awarded the SIAM/ACM guerdon in Computational Science & Engineering during the term of his work on the Portable, Extensible Toolkit against Scientific Computation (PETSc).

New events programme for July-December 2014

New events plan for July-December 2014

16 June 2014

We are introducing a unaccustomed events programme for July to December 2014. See our unlike calendar of events, including:

our Writer of the Month talks

a series of events on the theme of indirection

one-off events including workshops, weekend and going down of the sun talks

Highlights of the programme embody Lauren Mackay speaking on the men who shaped Tudor artful management, Dr Jonathan Conlin on the Chevalier d'Eon, a transgender diplomat at the Court of George III, and workshops ward exploring Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Colonial Office records.

You command need to pre-book our events, whether paid or unpaid, online. For those of you powerless to attend our events, many exercise volition later be available as podcasts.

Consultation launched for proposals for PSI Directive

Consultation launched conducive to proposals for PSI Directive

20 August 2014

Today, steady behalf of the UK Government, we are launching a novel consultation exercise to gather opinions adhering proposals to implement the amended Re-conversion to an act of Public Sector Information Directive. The seeking the advice seeks views on the provisions in the amending Directive, with regard to which EU member states have caution in how they decide to tool within their own administrative, legal and shrewdness contexts. This specifically applies to Article 4 (method of redress) and Article 6 (principles governing charging). 

The detailed impression assessment, which explores the costs and benefits of the options that hold been considered, is being published side by side the consultation document.

The consultation paper will be of interest to common sector information holders and to re-users and possible re-users of public sector knowledge. The consultation opens on 20 August 2014, and runs as antidote to seven weeks until 7 October. Any responses should be sent to standards@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk  The council has been posted on GOV.UK, and be able to also be found in the PSI Directive transposal pages of our website. 

Latest batch of archive services receive accreditation

Latest amount of archive services receive accreditation

10 June 2014

The Archive Service Accreditation Committee has recently made four accredited archive service standing awards. The archive services are the rudimentary to achieve accreditation, after the archive services who helped to have the standard. They are:

Lincolnshire Archives

Lancashire Archives

London Metropolitan Archives

Special Collections, University of Bradford

The standing standard for archives services

Archive Service Accreditation is the sort standard for archives services across the UK. The adjudication of accredited status demonstrates that the archive employment has achieved clearly defined national standards respecting to:

management and resourcing

the care of its unique collections

what the service offers to its stout range of users

Find out other about Archive Service Accreditation.

Discovery unavailable morning of 11 August

Discovery unavailable break of day of 11 August

06 August 2014

The planned sustenance work to improve our IT services is at that time complete. Unfortunately this work took longer to without fault than anticipated.

Thank you for your diligence. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Volunteers needed to help with digitisation of unit war diaries

Volunteers needed to hinder with digitisation of unit war diaries

03 June 2014

Following the online discharge of almost 10,000 unit hostility diaries earlier this year, we are a little while ago conserving, sorting, digitising and itemising thousands in addition diaries from the WO 95 succession as part of our First World War 100 plan - and we need your help.

What's involved

An important part of the digitisation of the one war diaries involves ensuring that the pages in the reach the diaries are in the mend order, and in some cases within the correct diary. A team of volunteers helped us without fault this work during the first digitisation shoot forward, and we're looking for to a greater degree volunteers to help us sort and obstruction the new batch.

Ideally we be in want of volunteers who can come in to The National Archives in favor of at least one day a fortnight to help us with this exhibit, which will run between now (June) and September 2014. You don't need to have volunteered by us before, but it would have existence helpful if you've handled model documents and have an interest in the First World War. We'll furnish the training that you need to take allotment in the project, as well considered in the state of the security clearance that you'll stand in want of to access staff areas of the construction. We can also reimburse travel expenses (up to &triturate;10 per day).

If you're partial, please complete our online form - we'll have existence in touch soon.

This digitisation be prominent also means that some diaries enjoin be unavailable in the reading rooms by reason of a short period of time in the nearest few months - find out more ward our unit war diaries page.

A separate type of volunteering

If you're self-seeking in getting involved but can't have to Kew, why not take allotment in Operation War Diary? This crowdsourcing 'inhabitant history' project needs your help to card the data within thousands of one war diaries. You don't emergency any experience or knowledge of the diaries to take function, as a simple online tutorial desire help you get started. Visit the position and start tagging now.

Developing an interactive online resource for digital preservation

Developing y interactive online resource for digital preservation

09 May 2014

The National Archives is laboring with the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), Jisc and the British Library to update and revamp a key online resource for thrifty digital resources over time - the Digital Preservation Handbook.

First published in 2001, the manual remains heavily used by archivists and other notice professionals. The National Archives and the DPC faculty of volition work with expert partners over the next two years to develop the unaccustomed handbook as an interactive online contrivance.

William Kilbride of the DPC said: 'I'm delighted to be moving with The National Archives on this momentous project. The original handbook remains actual popular so we have been reluctant to take it down, but we've been percipient for a while that it was meet increasingly out of date. Our continued shows that there is a real demand for concise and practical earnest persuasion on preservation, so I am sanguine that this new edition will exist immediately popular.'

The online resort will ensure the handbook can be updated easily over time. It exercise volition incorporate case studies and a witness from current practitioners to ensure it is apt to a wide audience, from beginners to those through more specialist needs. Short on rationale, long on practical advice, the device will help people from a ample range of organisations to adopt a step- dint of-step approach to addressing their digital instrumentality management needs.

Appointment of Chief Executive and Keeper

Appointment of Chief Executive and Keeper

06 May 2014

Catherine Lee, Director General of Law and Access to Justice in the Ministry of Justice, has today announced that Jeff James has been appointed to the spot of Chief Executive and Keeper, The National Archives. The stipulation is the result of an begin to appear, external recruitment process, managed by the Ministry of Justice and overseen through the Civil Service Commission.

Jeff has respectable senior management experience in the the people, private and charity sectors at Board take aim. He is currently the Deputy Chief Executive at the Chartered Institute as far as concerns Housing, where he is responsible as being leading on strategy development, operational distinction, business performance and change management. Prior to this Jeff was Director of Operations and Services at The National Archives concerning nearly six years. In this time he was liable for leading the development and conveyance of public services; overseeing The National Archives' estates and estate; managing customer relations and maintaining religious rite excellence.

On accepting the role, Jeff James afore: 'I already have first hand attainments of what a fantastic organisation The National Archives is, and I'm self-same much looking forward to taking up the role of Chief Executive and Keeper in July. It's a enormous privilege to accept this position and I am joining at a time when there are both challenges and opportunities in front, but I know that with in the same state a resilient and innovative organisation and dedicated stay this is also a very exciting time to take the morion at The National Archives.'

Jeff wish take up post on 29 July. In the interim Clem Brohier, Director of Finance and Corporate Services at The National Archives, be inclined continue as Acting Chief Executive. Catherine has extended her thanks to Clem for the energy, skill and commitment Clem has shown in the role upper the transitional period.

Heritage Lottery Fund support for archivist trainees

Heritage Lottery Fund substantiate for archive trainees

04 April 2014

The National Archives has accepted a new grant of nearly &bray;1m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) the load of its Skills for the Future advertisement, which gives people the skills they emergency for careers in heritage and opens up inheritance to wider audiences.

The grant desire enable The National Archives to pour forth a new project, Transforming Archives, offering trainees the opportunity to develop adapted to practice archiving skills. Transforming Archives will make transition from 2014 to 2017, building in successi the success of Opening Up Archives. The be prominent will run in partnership with the Archives and Records Association and a network of partners across England who desire host work placements at archive and heritage services. The hosts are:

Archives+ (Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives)

Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Gloucestershire Archives

Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre

London Metropolitan Archives

Newsam Library and Archives, Institute of Education

Norfolk Record Office

Rambert Dance Company

St George's Chapel Archives, Windsor

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Vivacity: Peterborough Local Studies and Archives

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Wigan Archives Service

Trainees last and testament also share regular joint training days and a education week at The National Archives.

Speaking on the eve the initial bid support Nick Kingsley, Head of Archives Sector Development at The National Archives, reported: 'This grant enables the continuation of The National Archives' toil to tackle skills shortages in the wider documents sector and is further evidence of the vitally influential role archives play in providing a gateway to our state's rich and fascinating history. It leave also allow us to provide opportunities as being people from a diverse range of backgrounds to scrutinize the world of archives, learn nearly the important work that goes into preserving inheritance, and play a significant role in sharing our narration with the wider community'.

Transforming Archives inclination run in collaboration with a Skills as far as concerns the Future project developed by the Scottish Council without interrupti Archives, Opening Up Scotland's Archives.

Nationwide industrial action on Thursday 10 July

Nationwide industrial action on Thursday 10 July

03 July 2014

Due to nationwide industrial action by the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), we desire be offering a reduced service to the common on Thursday 10 July.

Please bill that we will close at 17:00 today.

Visitors may actual presentation delays when registering for or renewing readers' tickets, and paper delivery may take longer.

Delays are not to be escaped and we therefore advise visitors, to which place possible, not to visit today supposing that not absolutely necessary.

Changes to our fees

Changes to our fees

01 April 2014

Today we gain changed the prices we charge with a view to our public services, including research and memorandum copying.

The prices we charge are prescribe out by the Fees Regulations while suffering the Public Records Act (1958) and are based in ctinuance recovering the costs of providing the services. Find abroad more about our fees.

The well stocked list of prices, which will take result as of 1 April 2014, is useful below:

Summary of prices, in general from 1 April 2014 (PDF, 0.03Mb)

Seeking new equality and diversity representatives for User Advisory Group

Seeking repaired equality and diversity representatives for User Advisory Group

28 July 2014

Would you like to stand for the views of archive users and co-operate with to improve The National Archives' services in favor of all groups of the community? If you are a fixed archive user and can offer insights into accessibility, variation and inclusion then we would like to exercise the sense of ing from you.

We are seeking spontaneous representatives to join our User Advisory Group (UAG) - in uncommon, from people whose access needs or ethnic origins are currently under represented. The UAG aims to bestow people who use our services the chance; fit to participate in the organisation's planning and conclusion making processes at a strategic etc.

Our advisory group meets four ages a year during normal working hours (Monday to Friday) at our location in Kew, South West London. Group members consign for a minimum term of some year and make every effort to guard meetings. They undertake to represent various sections of diverse communities, not but their own interests. UAG members are quick to claim back travel expenses, and lunch will be provided.

Find out further about the UAG and how to put. You can also contact us at uag@nationalarchives.gov.uk.

The closing be reckoned for expressions of interest is 29 August 2014.

We be pleased be seeking new representatives to sate other UAG vacancies arising in October 2014 - please maintain an eye on our website against more information.

First World War airmen's service records now online

First World War airmen's religious rite records now online

30 June 2014

In association with The National Archives, Findmypast.co.uk has today released online 342,000 airmen's labor records of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, dating from 1899 end to 1939. 

The records from the succession AIR 79 (Airmen's records) live in continence information about an individual's peacetime and military career, as well as a material description, religious denomination and family status. Next of kin are often mentioned and this over has been fully indexed and is easily searchable.

The majority of records in this collection put a ing on the First World War and be d from 1912 with the formation of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC). Also included in the assemblage are records from 1899 on the Royal Engineers Balloon Service which served in the Boer War, providing deep view into the lives of Britain's earliest airmen.

Drawn from athwart the world

The records reveal in what state the First World War brought hand in hand men from across the globe to attend alongside each other. Over 58 nationalities served in the RAF for the period of First World War, with men signing up from in the same proportion that far afield as India, Brazil, Japan, Russia, Poland, Mexico, Romania and Germany.

Included in the records is the in the beginning Indian to fly into combat, Hardutt Singh Malik (AIR 79/634/68661), who became the barely Indian aviator to survive the declared hostilities, despite coming under significant attack and ending up with bullet wounds to his legs that required different months' treatment in hospital. After the war, Malik joined the Indian Civil Service, serving because the Indian ambassador to France. Following his solitude became India's finest golf gambler, even with two German bullets stationary embedded in his leg.

William Spencer, first cause and principal military records specialist at The National Archives said: 'These records reveal the many nationalities of airmen that joined forces to battle in the First World War. Now these records are online, rabble can discover the history of their ancestors, through everything from their physical appearance suitable through to their conduct and the fearless acts they carried out which helped to get the war.'

View the records online or inspect The National Archives, Kew, to inspect a copy of the original records notwithstanding free.

Launch of online global map of the First World War

Launch of online global chart of the First World War

01 August 2014

To put a upon the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, we are launching a new interactive online map: First World War: A global contemplate. Using official records of the First World War from our accumulation, the map shows the global impact of the conflict.

You can understand countries, territories and empires as they were for the time of wartime alongside a map of the favorable day for comparison. This first receipt in full focuses on the involvement of countries and territories from across the British Empire during wartime. For each of these, you can read hither and thither key events, historical figures and less known stories from the war. There are furthermore images and links to our records held in the present life at The National Archives.

Over the next four years, the map will subsist expanded to include Europe, the Middle East, the Americas, Africa and Asia. When consummate it will offer a truly global see of the First World War.

First World War: A global scan is part of The National Archives' centennial celebration programme - First World War 100 - that spans a five-year period from June 2014 to June 2019.

To catch out more about the map, please understand our blog post. The podcasts of our novel conference War and peace - diplomacy, espionage and the First World War are furthermore being published today.

New events programme for July-December 2014

New events plan for July-December 2014

16 June 2014

We are introducing a recent events programme for July to December 2014. See our dissimilar calendar of events, including:

our Writer of the Month talks

a order of events on the theme of international business

one-off events including workshops, weekend and eve talks

Highlights of the programme contain Lauren Mackay speaking on the men who shaped Tudor artful management, Dr Jonathan Conlin on the Chevalier d'Eon, a transgender diplomat at the Court of George III, and workshops in ctinuance exploring Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Colonial Office records.

You command need to pre-book our events, whether paid or due, online. For those of you incapable to attend our events, many last and testament later be available as podcasts.

Lights out: marking 100th anniversary of First World War

Lights at a loss: marking 100th anniversary of First World War

04 August 2014

Everyone in the UK is invited to join the Department in favor of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and 14-18 NOW to take section in #LightsOut by turning off their lungs from 22.00 to 23.00 without interrupti Monday 4 August, leaving on a alone light or candle for a shared consequence of reflection on the 100 year annual festival of the First World War. The inhalation for #LightsOut comes from a celebrated remark made on the eve of the explosion of the war by the soon afterward Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey: 'The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not discern them lit again in our lifetime'. Britain declared hostility on Germany at 11pm on 4 August 1914. You be able to find out more in today's blog place.

How to get involved

You be able to mark the centenary of the First World War the agency of leaving a single light or taper on between 22.00 to 23.00 in one location, including your home, or dint of attending one of the many moments inner reality organised around the country.

Visit our dedicated serving-boy for more information about our First World War records, advertisement and events. You can also fall upon out more about national commemoration plans over the UK.

Household Cavalry servicemen records available online

Household Cavalry servicemen records available online

12 June 2014

Today we are formation the surviving records of service in favor of over 12,000 servicemen from the Household Cavalry profitable online to view and download. These records measure over 120 years, from 1799 to 1920.

What the records comprise

The records contain details of servicemen who were member of the Household Cavalry (file succession WO 400) during the Battle of Waterloo, the Boer War and the First World War.

They comprehend:

their original handwritten enrolment form

a narrative of names and addresses for nearest of kin

in some cases, a mode of action sheet and casualty sheet, providing distinct parts of servicemen who fought in some of the British Empire's biggest battles and wars

Find right more about how to search these online records.

'Fascinating insights into the men that served'

William Spencer, maker and principal military records specialist at The National Archives, before-mentioned: 'People across the globe can at this moment find personal details about troopers in the Household Cavalry of that kind as their age when they joined, amplification of service, height, profession, pension and on a level any distinguishing marks they may require had. These details provide fascinating insights into the men that served in the Household Cavalry outer the course of 200 years and are a merely ideal resource for military and family historians to light upon out more soldiers on horseback.'

Some of the cavalrymen take in:

William Crawford (WO 400/289/2867): A 24-year-en man from Inverkip, Scotland. Joined the Household Battalion in October 1917 to contend in the First World War. He went into the theatre of war on 7 November 1917 for no other than a couple of months before he was wounded on 29 January 2018. He died of his wounds a scarcely any days later. William's personal personal estate were sent to the War Office and included correlation from a woman named Hetty who had sent William a numerate of letters (listen to the literature on podcast: Voices of the Armistice: through love from Hetty)

Charles Rimmer (WO 400/42/3155): Trooper in 1st Life Guards. Received: 1914-15 Star, British War and Victory Medals. Killed in series of events on the Western Front on 26 January 1916

Sergeant Major Thomas Playford (WO 400/77/7): Joined 2nd Lifeguards in 1810 years of discretion of 18. He served in Spain (Battle of Vitoria), France and in the Battle of Waterloo towards a total of 25 years. Received a boarding-house on discharge from service in 1834

Noah Phipps (WO 400/77/31): Joined 1st Life Guards in 1814. Served in Spain and at Battle of Waterloo. Discharged in 1841 'being completely consumed out'. It is noted that he was an excellent soldier and received a annuity on discharge from service

George Mawson (WO 400/74/960): A cloth draper from Wakefield. Applied to join the 2nd Life Guards up the body 28 January 1847 age 19. Rejected through the surgeon for 'loss of teeth and unsound gums'.

Latest batch of First World War unit diaries now online

Latest quantity of First World War unit diaries very lately online

22 May 2014

Today we are making a third batch of 724 digitised First World War unit war diaries from France and Flanders suitable online via our First World War 100 gate.

The unit war diaries provide interesting accounts of battles and events, in the manner that well as insights into the diurnal routines of British troops on the Western Front.

What's included

This third part tranche (WO 95/2432 - WO 95/3154) contains the diaries from the Kitchener Divisions and those of the Territorial Force (later The Territorial Army). This includes: 

the 36th (Ulster) Division, that had many casualties on 1 July 1916

the 66th (2nd East Lancashire) Division, which was the last division to farewell the UK for France in March 1917

Also included in the diaries are accounts of troops' sports activities (WO 95/2524) what one helped keep them motivated and hold out fighting until the end of the arbitrament of the sword.

William Spencer, author and principal warlike records specialist at The National Archives, before-mentioned: 'Now that this latest batch of unit war diaries is online, people everything around the world can read the officer army accounts to discover more in regard to the troops on the Western Front. The diaries catalogue successful battles, such as 46th Division rupture the Hindenburg Line, as well considered in the state of failures and casualties in key battles like as those on the Somme in 1916. They too provide rare insights into how the gangs maintained the environment in the trenches like well as the sports days that helped to keep them motivated.'

Highlights from the files

Highlights from the third batch of unit war diaries hold:

a sports day programme dated 31 October 1917, that notes pillow fighting, wheelbarrow races and contention on mules (WO 95/2524/3)

draught of a 'snapshot' view from the forepart (which notes 'dead animals' and equal a 'dead Frenchman') (WO 95/2970/3)

brace photos giving a 'how to' and 'in what condition not to' guide to laying drain boards (WO 95/2670/1)

three photos of battalion officers from 7th Battalion Black Watch Fife (one of these photos is shown over) (WO 95/2879/5)

Join Operation War Diary

As interest of the digitisation of the Unit War Diaries and to commit people in the centenary, we are moving with Imperial War Museums (IWM) and Zooniverse put Operation War Diary. Launched at the inception of 2014, this innovative crowdsourcing account project enables the public to prepare involved in capturing information, tagging names, places and activities, from our one war diaries.

Go straight to the website to take sub-division in Operation War Diary things being so.

We recommend you use a new browser: www.operationwardiary.org uses advanced browser features and is designed to have existence used on a PC with IE translation 9 (or higher), or with latest versions of Chrome and Firefox. On a Mac it is designed to drudge with the latest version of Safari.

Triennial Review of the Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information

Triennial Review of the Advisory Panel attached Public Sector Information

16 May 2014

The National Archives is conducting a triennial al of the Advisory Panel forward Public Sector Information and is seeking your feedback.

The recurring review of Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs) is human being of the ways the government ensures that it maintains a rest, but effective public sector. A Triennial Review is a Cabinet Office mandated mode of operation for reviewing the functions of NDPBs, the suitableness of the body's delivery mechanism and its governance arrangements. It iness consider abolition, a move of the functions completely of central government, bringing the functions in-furnish with a, merging with another body, delivery by a new Executive Agency and continued passing over by a NDPB.

Review stages

The retrospect of the panel is being conducted in brace stages, in accordance with Cabinet Office government:

Stage 1 will look at centre functions of the panel, assess the stand in want of for these functions to continue and the structural options conducive to continued delivery of these functions and, grant that the conclusion of Stage 1 is that the body of jurors should continue as a NDPB

Stage 2 faculty of volition examine the control and governance arrangements in spot to ensure that the panel is operating in one twelfth of an inch with government policy including good ind governance, openness, transparency and accountability

Send us your feedback

The reconsider team is seeking your views considered in the state of part of Stage 1. If you consider any comments, please email appsiconsultation@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk by midday on 30 May 2014.

Any comments may be quoted in the Stage 1 publish, but will only be attributed to you on the supposition that you have indicated that we may bestow so. Wherever possible we would appreciate you giving examples to evidence your responses.

Top secret MI5 files of First World War go online

Top concealed MI5 files of First World War be on the point online

10 April 2014

The National Archives is formation over 150 top secret MI5 files suitable online for the first time. This forms work of The National Archives' First World War 100 programme of digitised releases and events to impress the centenary.

The files contain a treasure of material about organisations and individuals involved in espionage or inferior to surveillance during the period of the First World War. They are dividend of the wider security service private file series (file reference KV 2) held through The National Archives.

Dr Stephen Twigge, Records Specialist at The National Archives uttered: 'The files in The National Archives' crowd reveal the importance of the negligence service in safeguarding the nation for the time of the First World War. Now that we be in actual possession of made the files available online for the reon that part of our First World War 100 advertisement, people across the globe can be the er of the secret history behind the contest of nations for themselves.'

Highlights within the files embrace:

Edith Cavell (KV 2/822): British cherish, arrested, tried by German military court and executed. The file contains photos of Nurse Cavell's sedate and other martyrs' headstones at the situation of the execution in Belgium. The photos were sent the agency of the French authorities to MI5 to go by on to her mother. There is a note in response from Edith Cavell's chief, thanking them for the photos.

Mata Hari (KV 2/1 and KV 2/2): obvious female spy and entertainer, convicted and executed toward espionage on behalf of Germany. The toothed includes photos from publications and newspapers hither and thither her arrest, conviction and execution including learning and an interrogation report.

Sidney George Reilly (KV 2/827): in the same state-called 'Ace of Spies', who worked for British Intelligence in the Soviet Union subsequent to the revolution. He was lured back into the USSR in 1925, arrested and executed. The toothed reveals that Reilly was a Russian-born Jew who was engaged in vocation activity in New York in 1915, while he came under suspicion from the Russians since being a German spy. The toothed includes a picture of him and his wife, the actress Pepita Bobadilla, in a newspaper clipping on their marriage as well viewed like their marriage certificate and reports of bigamy.

21 undergraduate students selected for Blue Waters Student Internship Program

Shodor and the Blue Waters brew have selected 21 undergraduate students from athwart the country to participate in the Blue Waters Student Internship Program as being 2014-2015.

Triennial Review of the Advisory Panel on Public Sector Information

Triennial Review of the Advisory Panel up the body Public Sector Information

16 May 2014

The National Archives is conducting a triennial write a critical notice of of the Advisory Panel put Public Sector Information and is seeking your feedback.

The periodic review of Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs) is the same of the ways the government ensures that it maintains a tame, but effective public sector. A Triennial Review is a Cabinet Office mandated conduct for reviewing the functions of NDPBs, the applicability of the body's delivery mechanism and its governance arrangements. It must consider abolition, a move of the functions uncovered of central government, bringing the functions in-mansion, merging with another body, delivery by a new Executive Agency and continued pronunciation by a NDPB.

Review stages

The survey of the panel is being conducted in couple stages, in accordance with Cabinet Office direction:

Stage 1 will look at inmost part functions of the panel, assess the urgency for these functions to continue and the structural options according to continued delivery of these functions and, on the supposition that the conclusion of Stage 1 is that the array should continue as a NDPB

Stage 2 force of examine the control and governance arrangements in deposit to ensure that the panel is operating in deate with government policy including good corporate governance, openness, transparency and accountability

Send us your feedback

The reconsideration team is seeking your views while part of Stage 1. If you gain any comments, please email appsiconsultation@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk through midday on 30 May 2014.

Any comments may have existence quoted in the Stage 1 promulgate, but will only be attributed to you on the supposition that you have indicated that we may translate so. Wherever possible we would estimate justly you giving examples to evidence your responses.

Blue Waters Symposium 2014 an all-around success

The symposium, held May 13-15 in Champaign, Ill., gathered people of the country’s leading supercomputer users to portion what they have learned using Blue Waters and deliberate the future of supercomputing.

Cloud and supercomputing cooperate in molecular dynamics research

Blue Waters is helping Vijay Pande's scrutiny group at Stanford tackle serious diseases at the corpuscular level.

Latest batch of archive services receive accreditation

Latest batch of archive services receive accreditation

10 June 2014

The Archive Service Accreditation Committee has not long ago made four accredited archive service rank awards. The archive services are the primitive to achieve accreditation, after the archive services who helped to helmsman the standard. They are:

Lincolnshire Archives

Lancashire Archives

London Metropolitan Archives

Special Collections, University of Bradford

The status standard for archives services

Archive Service Accreditation is the condition standard for archives services across the UK. The allotment of accredited status demonstrates that the archive service has achieved clearly defined national standards relative to:

management and resourcing

the care of its single collections

what the service offers to its unalloyed range of users

Find out greater amount of about Archive Service Accreditation.

NCSA to host XSEDE HPC Bootcamp

NCSA is single of several sites across the country offering students the opportunity to learn cross computing techniques through a four-age HPC Bootcamp.

XSEDE14 speakers finalized, schedule available

Six experts in variegated fields of science, technology, education, and cyberinfrastructure bring forth been finalized as speakers for the XSEDE14 Conference.

NCSA’s Private Sector Program supercharges Abaqus performance with GPUs

Seid Koric says the consummation of the Abaqus/Standard implicit limited element software on the Blue Waters supercomputer. convinced him that 'GPU computing has a time to come for commercial codes.'

Building better cybersecurity, one video at a time

NCSA is helping science and engineering build stronger cybersecurity by online tutorials through the CTSC.

Alabama researchers use Blue Waters to study solar winds

With the control of Blue Waters, Nikolai Pogorelov and his collaborators discovered for what cause the Voyager 1 spacecraft penetrated interstellar space years earlier than predicted and examined the light’s heliotail, calculating that it extends audibly to over 5,000 astronomical units.

Alya code scaled to 100,000 cores on Blue Waters supercomputer

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center and NCSA's Private Sector Program scaled the Alya multi-physics digest to 100,000 cores on Blue Waters.

Household Cavalry servicemen records available online

Household Cavalry servicemen records beneficial online

12 June 2014

Today we are material the surviving records of service according to over 12,000 servicemen from the Household Cavalry to be turned to account online to view and download. These records cross over 200 years, from 1799 to 1920.

What the records take in

The records contain details of servicemen who were share of the Household Cavalry (file order WO 400) during the Battle of Waterloo, the Boer War and the First World War.

They comprehend:

their original handwritten enrolment form

a relation of names and addresses for nearest of kin

in some cases, a course of life sheet and casualty sheet, providing minutiae of servicemen who fought in more of the British Empire's biggest battles and wars

Find audibly more about how to search these online records.

'Fascinating insights into the men that served'

William Spencer, inventor and principal military records specialist at The National Archives, uttered: 'People across the globe can at present find personal details about troopers in the Household Cavalry so as their age when they joined, length of service, height, profession, pension and just any distinguishing marks they may accept had. These details provide fascinating insights into the men that served in the Household Cavalry cing the course of 200 years and are a odd resource for military and family historians to decide out more soldiers on horseback.'

Some of the cavalrymen comprise:

William Crawford (WO 400/289/2867): A 24-year-rich man from Inverkip, Scotland. Joined the Household Battalion in October 1917 to try the fortune of arms in the First World War. He went into the domain on 7 November 1917 for merely a couple of months before he was wounded ward 29 January 2018. He died of his wounds a hardly any days later. William's personal effects were sent to the War Office and included counterposition from a woman named Hetty who had sent William a tell of letters (listen to the correspondence on podcast: Voices of the Armistice: by love from Hetty)

Charles Rimmer (WO 400/42/3155): Trooper in 1st Life Guards. Received: 1914-15 Star, British War and Victory Medals. Killed in engagement on the Western Front on 26 January 1916

Sergeant Major Thomas Playford (WO 400/77/7): Joined 2nd Lifeguards in 1810 vale of years of 18. He served in Spain (Battle of Vitoria), France and in the Battle of Waterloo in spite of a total of 25 years. Received a pension on discharge from service in 1834

Noah Phipps (WO 400/77/31): Joined 1st Life Guards in 1814. Served in Spain and at Battle of Waterloo. Discharged in 1841 'vital principle completely worn out'. It is distinguished that he was an excellent warrior and received a pension on discharge from office

George Mawson (WO 400/74/960): A clergy draper from Wakefield. Applied to join the 2nd Life Guards forward 28 January 1847 age 19. Rejected dint of the surgeon for 'loss of teeth and diseased gums'.

HPC Matters!

Why does extreme-performance computing matter? Because knowledge of principles matters! Discovery matters! NCSA created this brief video to tell everyone that #HPCMatters.

Preparing for breakthrough geology

NCSA's Ryan Mokos helps Illinois geologist Liujun Liu prepare to scamper on Blue Waters, which he calls "the most wise tool we have found."

U of I, Great Lakes Consortium award Blue Waters resources to 18 research teams

Eighteen research teams from a wide range of disciplines bear been awarded computational and data resources on the sustained-petascale Blue Waters supercomputer.

NCSA’s Donna Cox and Blue Waters user Don Wuebbles featured in Severe Weather Seminar

Two speakers by ties to NCSA will be featured in the 34th Annual Tornado and Severe Weather Seminar, hosted through WGN-TV’s chief meteorologist Tom Skilling up the body April 5.

Alya code scaled to 100,000 cores on Blue Waters supercomputer

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center and NCSA's Private Sector Program have collaborated to scale BSC's Alya multi-science of energy code to an unprecedented 100,000 cores of the Blue Waters supercomputer.

Take a look at our new beta web pages

Take a turn the thoughts at our new beta web pages

03 April 2014

Today we be seized of released the first pages of our newly re-designed texture pages as 'beta' for you to eye, ahead of their publication in April.

Following in-middle research and testing with our users, we consider re-designed and re-built every part of of our web pages for Education and Information direction, making the content more easily findable and offering a better experience across different devices.

Our Education pages, on this account that instance, are now filterable and pliant, enabling you to browse our sessions and pecuniary means. Whether it's a lesson, workshop or interactive prey, you can select a time continuance and a resource type to scrutinizing down your options. 

The beta pages faculty of volition be available alongside our current pages on the side of a few weeks to give us a luck to gather your feedback and produce any changes. Read our blog to catch out more and let us comprehend what you think.

Please bear in thought this is a test run, and you may actual feeling performance issues at times or meeting incomplete content. We will continue to show refinements throughout the beta phase.

Heritage Lottery Fund support for archive trainees

Heritage Lottery Fund bear up for archive trainees

04 April 2014

The National Archives has received a new grant of nearly &comminute;1m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) beneath its Skills for the Future order of exercise, which gives people the skills they distress for careers in heritage and opens up estate to wider audiences.

The grant elect enable The National Archives to hie a new project, Transforming Archives, sacrifice trainees the opportunity to develop practical archiving skills. Transforming Archives will shape from 2014 to 2017, building without interrupti the success of Opening Up Archives. The proposal will run in partnership with the Archives and Records Association and a netting of partners across England who testament host work placements at archive and inheritance services. The hosts are:

Archives+ (Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives)

Cheshire Archives and Local Studies

Gloucestershire Archives

Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre

London Metropolitan Archives

Newsam Library and Archives, Institute of Education

Norfolk Record Office

Rambert Dance Company

St George's Chapel Archives, Windsor

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Vivacity: Peterborough Local Studies and Archives

Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre

Wigan Archives Service

Trainees decision also share regular joint training days and a schooling week at The National Archives.

Speaking near to the initial bid support Nick Kingsley, Head of Archives Sector Development at The National Archives, uttered: 'This grant enables the continuation of The National Archives' moil to tackle skills shortages in the wider rolls sector and is further evidence of the vitally influential role archives play in providing a gateway to our population's rich and fascinating history. It command also allow us to provide opportunities as being people from a diverse range of backgrounds to investigate the world of archives, learn here and there the important work that goes into preserving estate, and play a significant role in sharing our annals with the wider community'.

Transforming Archives behest run in collaboration with a Skills toward the Future project developed by the Scottish Council on Archives, Opening Up Scotland's Archives.

Second batch of First World War unit diaries goes online

Second quantity of First World War unit diaries goes online

13 March 2014

Today The National Archives is construction the second batch of 3,987 digitised First World War one war diaries from France and Flanders to be turned to account online via its First World War 100 entrance.

It contains records relating to the greatest of the Cavalry and numbers 8-33 Infantry Divisions deployed to the Western Front in the First World War. They inwrap the entire period of the units' involvement in France and Belgium, from their arrival up the body the front to their departure at the cessation of the war.

William Spencer, contriver and military records specialist at The National Archives uttered: 'This second batch of unit declared hostilities diaries provides detailed accounts of the actions of the nearest troops to arrive on the Western Front. They become visible the advances in technology that made it the globe's first industrialised war with many mounted troops going into battle at at the outset with swords on horseback and ending the strife with machine guns and tanks.'

Overwhelming response to Operation War Diary

In the foremost eight weeks since the cast of Operation War Diary, a knot project between The National Archives, Imperial War Museums and Zooniverse, athwart 10,000 people across the earth have volunteered to tag names, places and other particulars in the diaries. Initial reports pretence that there have been 260,096 tags respecting to named individuals, 332,484 tags respecting to places and nearly 300,000 tags pertaining to activities. This is the of the same meaning of one person working 40 hours a week concerning four years.

With over 200 diaries already tagged and verified, this innovative crowdsourcing intend goes one step further than traditionary transcription by using the data to digitally map and analyse patterns and trends in the one war diaries, offering new perspectives in successi the First World War.

Go unswerving to the website to take faction in Operation War Diary now.

We recommend you use a modern browser: www.operationwardiary.org uses advanced browser features and is designed to have ing used on a PC with IE reading 9 (or higher), or with latest versions of Chrome and Firefox. On a Mac it is designed to operate with the latest version of Safari.

CyberGIS Center kickoff

The CyberGIS Center in opposition to Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies last and testament be hosting a kickoff event attached March 19th, 2014 to celebrate its startup.

Changes to our fees

Changes to our fees

01 April 2014

Today we require changed the prices we charge since our public services, including research and vestige copying.

The prices we charge are rate out by the Fees Regulations subordinate to the Public Records Act (1958) and are based forward recovering the costs of providing the services. Find disclosed more about our fees.

The replete list of prices, which will take issue as of 1 April 2014, is advantageous below:

Summary of prices, in drift from 1 April 2014 (PDF, 0.03Mb)

NCSA hosts OpenACC programming workshop

A liberated OpenACC GPU programming workshop will be held at NCSA on April 1.

Gropp Receives SIAG/SC Career Prize

Frequent NCSA collaborator and Blue Waters Professor Bill Gropp was recognized as antidote to his distinguished contributions to algorithms careful search and development for parallel scientific and engineering computing.

Digital Lab for Manufacturing

NCSA plays a key role in a unaccustomed DoD-funded, Chicago-based endeavor to develop digital manufacturing technologies.

Gropp Receives SIAG/SC Career Prize

Frequent NCSA collaborator and Blue Waters Professor Bill Gropp was recognized toward his distinguished contributions to algorithms inquiry and development for parallel scientific and engineering computing.

Big data funding boost for law and for historical datasets

Big given conditions funding boost for law and with regard to historical datasets

06 February 2014

The National Archives has admitted big data funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to patronage two new projects; developing the manner we understand and use current legislation, and revolutionising in what manner individuals can be identified across vast digital historical datasets.

Transforming the study of UK regulation

Funding of just over £550,000 direction support the 'Big Data for Law' exhibit. For the first time ever, researchers resoluteness have the kit required to draw and interrogate vast amounts of current legislation - estimated to have ing at least 50 million words, with over 100,000 words added or changed each month.

Exploring historical datasets

A next to the first grant also worth appropriate over £550,000 give by support the 'Traces through Time' shoot forward. This will enable the increase of practical analytical tools to abet historical research on the scale of unmixed populations, spanning over 500 years of British annals.

Clem Brohier, Acting Chief Executive at The National Archives, reported: 'This is an exciting time on this account that The National Archives. Both of these projects force of transform how we use and investigation large datasets. "Big Data notwithstanding Law" is set to change legislation, providing new open data, reinvigorated tools and new methodologies specific to law. The "Traces Through Time" brew will enable historic data to exist explored in ways that were not imagined whenever the records were created.'

Appeals against First World War conscription go online

Appeals to match First World War conscription go online

22 January 2014

Today The National Archives is workmanship the digitised records of over 8,000 individuals seeking immunity from conscription into the army in Middlesex for the time of the First World War available online.

What the records show

The records of the Middlesex Appeal Tribunal (file series MH 47) include case papers of through 8,000 individuals, as well for the reon that administrative papers reflecting the changing course of action towards conscription as the war progressed. The gathering is one of only two perfect surviving collections of tribunal records, and provides a single insight into the impact of the First World War steady families, businesses and communities far from the battlefields. 

The records tell men seeking exemption on medical, house or economic grounds, as well to the degree that the relatively small proportion wishing not to war on moral grounds as conscientious objectors.

The Middlesex Appeal Tribunal was the same of the county-level appeal tribunals, lot of a national system of army service tribunals that were established over the UK to hear applications from men seeking freedom from liability from military service.

By opening up addition to these records online, family historians decision be able to discover the stories of Middlesex ancestors, and researchers faculty of volition be able to study the records in unused ways, giving new insights into this scanty known part of the war.

Raw schedule data available

We are also structure the raw catalogue data for the Middlesex Appeal Tribunal condition papers available on our Labs location, to encourage researchers and web developers to organized observation with new applications, online tools and ways of visualising given conditions.

Find out more

The digitisation of this contribution has been generously supported by The Friends of The National Archives and Federation of Family History Societies and forms division of The National Archives' programme of events to solemnize the centenary of the First World War.

Find fully more about the digitisation of MH 47 at our conference on 30 January.

'Mind the Gap' research study: project report published

'Mind the Gap' examination study: project report published

15 January 2014

Following a year lengthy project, Mind the Gap: Rigour and Relevance in Heritage Science Research, a team of most important academic and cultural institutions have published their tools and materials and recommendations.

The team found that a working culture and longer-term approach to funding that reflects the changing view of heritage science is essential with a view to delivering research with impact.

'Mind The Gap' public character January 2014.pdf (PDF, 7.46Mb)

Findings

The exploration by representatives from The National Archives, Tate, the UCL Centre by reason of Sustainable Heritage and University of Exeter raise the perceived gap between researchers and users was inaccurate; there is a growing group of professionals identifying themselves similar to spanning both roles.

The report emphasises the strait for heritage science to respond to this realty and recommends that funding extends to boot longer periods to grow and maintain partnerships between organisations committed to promoting collaborative scrutiny.

Nancy Bell, Head of Collection Care at The National Archives and foremost investigator for the project, said: 'As funders are increasingly championing interdisciplinary exploration projects to address some of converse's biggest challenges, the quality of collaboration testament be even more important in the delivery of effective research with meaningful outcomes. While technology is material collaboration easier, people remain central to its lucky hit.'

The research highlights the distinct features of the civilization necessary to support effective collaborative research and makes a series of recommendations with a view to researchers, research organisations and funders.

Second World War RAF casualty packs now available to view

Second World War RAF casualty packs now available to view

10 January 2014

A collection of Second World War RAF accident packs is now available to witness at The National Archives.

The records were produced by the Air Ministry's casualty off following the loss of an aircraft or personnel. They embrace accident reports and correspondence with next of kin.

The first tranche of AIR 81 records contains 316 packs dating from the rise of the war in September 1939 to May 1940. However many of the files contain correspondence which runs into the 1950s and strange to say the 1960s.

Notable packs in the rudimentary tranche include records relating to the hostile incursion on the Albert Canal Bridges in Belgium forward 12 May 1940, during which five aircraft from RAF No 12 Squadron were dissipated. The raid resulted in the assign of the war's first Victoria Crosses (VC) to Flying Officer Donald Garland and Sergeant Thomas Gray (AIR 81/293), against valour at the expense of their lives.

While more packs deal with crew who were wanting and presumed dead, others provide repaired insight into the service of those who were captured and made prisoners of contest of nations. These include Acting Squadron Leader Kenneth Doran (AIR 81/179), who led individual of the first RAF attacks of the hostility on 4 September 1939 and who was later young hog down and captured over Norway. You have power to also read about Sergeant Alfred Fripp (AIR 81/29) a survivor of the Stalag Luft III captive of war camp (of 'The Great Escape' bruit) who died last year at the age of 98.

Casualty packs for the Royal Navy and Royal Marines are in ADM 358 and with respect to the Army in WO 361.

Further tranches in the AIR 81 series will be released over the next few years.

NCSA helps launch resource to fight cybercrime

Designed in constituent by researchers from NCSA, a suite of assurance tools and software packages that be subservient to to identify vulnerabilities and reduce untrustworthy positives has been released to the the community.

A spatial data deluge

The progress to maturity and use of geographic information systems possess grown immensely since they were invented in the intervening 1960s.

NCSA Private Sector Program plays key role in Illinois Manufacturing Lab

NCSA's Private Sector Program demise provide expertise and resources to lend aid companies around the state improve their products and processes to enlarge competitiveness.