The archive and library collections being digitised for the Georgian Papers Programme are estimated to exceed 350,000 pages of material. Recent Additions: The Georgian Papers Programme This aims to encourage participation in archival heritage, in line with national priorities for the sector. Particular emphasis has been given to incorporating terms reflecting the histories and experiences of groups that are under-represented among archive users. UKAT therefore incorporates terms that UK repositories and projects have contributed, or have been sourced from other schemes such as Library of Congress Subject Headings and the British Education Thesaurus. However, UNESCO sometimes lacks the depth of detailed terminology required by UK archives. UNESCO was used as the basis for UKAT because a number of archives and archive projects, including The Archives Hub, had adopted it for indexing purposes. UKAT is based on the broad, coherent, high-level UNESCO Thesaurus structure, and covers education, science, culture, social/human sciences, information, communication, politics, law and economics. To promote the involvement in archives by groups which are under-represented among archive users, by providing subject terms which reflect their histories and experiences.To ensure that users of archives can carry out effective subject searches of archives across the UK.To improve access to archives by subject.
It is a controlled vocabulary that archives can use when indexing their collections and catalogues. UKAT is a subject thesaurus which has been created for the archive sector in the United Kingdom.
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