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.