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<pressrelease><date>2000-11-01</date><en><title>UK Public Records Office selects IXIASOFT XML Server for Access to         Archive (A2A) project.</title><subtitle/><html><p>Montreal - IXIASOFT announced that the UK Public Records Office selected their XML server technology as the backbone for the English archives network initiative. The Access to Archives (A2A) is a realization for England of a scheme for a United Kingdom archive network. A2A aims by March 2002 to convert to electronic form over 400,000 pages of existing hard-copy catalogues of archives dating from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries held in a variety of national, local, and specialist repositories throughout England, and make them available via a central WWW site.</p>
			<p>Matthew Hillyard, lead A2A developer, selected IXIASOFT's XML server because of its price and content retrieval ability. IXIASOFT's XML indexing and content retrieval software will enable the catalogues of archives to be searched by region, repository and broad theme, and via authority-controlled and free text searches; appropriate links, both to the National Register of Archives maintained by the HMC and to other networking projects, will also be included.</p>
			<p>For more information on the A2A process and the projects involved, visit the A2A website at www.pro.gov.uk/archives/A2A/default.htm.</p>
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