Multi-lingual access through the World wide web will be demonstrated and evaluated using an XML database to store the metadata, and the existing data archives of the eight national archives involved in the consortium to ensure coverage of requirements and completeness of evaluation. Tools will be developed to construct and maintain the metadata. A prototype of multilingual query, retrieval and explanation tools. A prototype of construction and maintenance tools for data archives using metadata representations. A prototype of an XML metadata server.
Full evaluation reports on trials by user organisations to validate the approach.