Project partners

This page acknowledges those organisations which have supported UKAT through financial or other assistance. See the Contributors page for details of the organisations and individuals which have contributed terms to the Thesaurus.

ADLiB Information Systems has supported UKAT by donating a copy of its thesaurus management software. This has been used to edit contributions. ADLiB is an independent, employee-owned company which supplies off-the-shelf and bespoke software applications for archives, libraries and museums. Examples include archive and records management systems; document management and control systems; membership systems, and image database applications.

The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) supported the UKAT project in 2003-2004 with a grant under its Your Heritage programme. The HLF uses money from the National Lottery to support a wide range of projects involving the local, regional and national heritage of the United Kingdom.

The National Archives was launched in April 2003, and brings together two existing organisations, the Public Record Office and the Historical Manuscripts Commission. The National Archives, under its predecessors, has had experience of handling archival records since 1838, and of giving access to those records from the mid-19th century. Since 1997 it has been significant in the development of electronic archival catalogues and in the application of the UNESCO Thesaurus to archival indexing. The National Archives contributed partnership funding during the HLF-funded phase of the UKAT project.

Studio 24 Ltd provided web database development for the UKAT project in 2003-2004, including the development of tools for presenting the Thesaurus on the web. Studio 24, based in Cambridge, focuses on web design and maintenance, website hosting, consultancy and dynamic database projects.

With the permission of UNESCO, the UKAT project has adapted and extended the second edition of the UNESCO Thesaurus in order to incorporate more terms relevant to the UK archive sector. The Thesaurus was chosen because it had already been adopted by a number of archives and archive projects for indexing purposes (see About UKAT for further information). It was developed by UNESCO as a trilingual controlled vocabulary for use in indexing information stored in the UNESCO Integrated Documentation Network. Further information is available on the Thesaurus' website (maintained by ULCC).

The University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) has been providing computing and network services for over 30 years. Originally it served the University of London, then grew into a regional centre and later a national high performance computing centre. ULCC's activites are currently focussed on computer networks and data storage, including the operation of the National Digital Archive of Datasets. In 2003-2004, ULCC contributed partnership and in-kind funding to the UKAT project, and provided a base for the project's Editor.