Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 10 December 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Capturing Full Value of Genealogical Heritage: Discussion

3:30 pm

Ms Nicola Morris:

With regard to access to records, a difficulty is that various organisations have different standards on how record sets have been produced. Earlier we were discussing access to images of the originals in some cases and not in others. There were also differences in how sets were collected. The Scottish collections have all been centralised in one location to one standard produced ten years ago. It has been incredibly successful. It is a pay-per-view site and it is generating income. It is a very good example to examine as to how all of the records were brought together.

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