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The Mills Archive
The Mills Archive in Reading, an independent charity preserving the records of traditional milling, completed a data migration into AtoM and launched its online catalogue publicly. The project was profiled as a success story by The National Archives, whose representatives were impressed enough after a visit to invite the archive to write a case study so that other organisations could learn from it. TNA noted that AtoM let the Mills Archive describe material richly at collection level and better capture the context and relationships between records than its former catalogue allowed. It remains a well-documented example of a small independent archive gaining a modern public catalogue on open-source foundations.
Original source
AtoM Community Success Stories — Mills Archive
AtoM Wiki / The National Archives (UK)
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