Collections Management Paper scanning is undertaken at the Universities of Manchester and Birmingham, and microfilm scanning at the University of Oxford. The servers are located at Leeds and Oxford. The PAT search engine, the SGML files which comprise the master database, the indexes, and images of two titles are mounted on the Oxford server. The EFS Excalibur search engine, the images of four titles and copies of the OCR 'd text are mounted on the Leeds server. The PAT server allow s access via the Internet at Oxford and then links seamlessly to Leeds to allow for fuzzy searching of the OCR indexes.
Workflow management is manual and based on close collaboration among the four sites.
Quality control is also manual. Although images are archived onto the HFS there is no strategy for digital preservation. Substantial contributions are made from members of the Project Executive who are not employed on the project. Maintaining consistent image quality and scanning from bound volumes. Quality control of metadata, especially in relation to random keyboarding errors.