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Purpose of Bulletin Board - john.prentice - 27 May 2022
The SHRMF and RREC are engaged in a project, called ARCHIVES~Online, to make publicly available, in the cloud, a searchable database of scans of all the archived documents relating to the development of R-R cars in the period up to World War 2.
The expertise of many people will be used to construct the index to these documents.
Currently the project has a Prototype System available that is populated with high resolution scan of aroundf 250,000 documents from the Experimental Department in Derby, from West Wittering, from Springfield and around the world where cars were being tested. About 10% of this has been indexed.
This Forum is part of the support mechanism for people working with this Prototype.
Membership of this forum allows volunteers to share their best practice and experience, ask for help on details and discuss developments of the Prototype into a working system for Foundation and Club members and the worldwide general public.
A important additional feature is that the log-in credentials here are also the login credentials to allow indexing and other management of the cloud database.
Thus the database and the forum have a shared membership but are actually quite separate pieces of software. To make this clear you will see this forum has a red "R" icon in your browser tab. The database displays a blue icon - see attached.