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'.