9th December 2005, 03:14 PM
PAS is only part of the "hub". The number of records in PAS is truly insignificant to those held in the HERs and NMR. The NMR already has it's public face, the PASTSCAPE site, and many of the HERs either have, or will have, internet access. They are of course already public access datatbases, it just takes a while (currently 3-5 weeks on the NMR) to get anything out of them. Then there is the MAGIC website which is fantastic .
These may soon be replaced by the Heritage Gateway project which intends to combine these, along with building records, into one public access database. This will then be the hub of British heritage, although I think it'll be a huge waste of money and time and a pointless duplication of work (personnal opinion, not that of my employer etc).
These may soon be replaced by the Heritage Gateway project which intends to combine these, along with building records, into one public access database. This will then be the hub of British heritage, although I think it'll be a huge waste of money and time and a pointless duplication of work (personnal opinion, not that of my employer etc).