UKAT - UK Archival Thesaurus | Home skip to navigation skip to content UKAT: UK ARCHIVAL THESAURUS Data Privacy & Cookies › Contact Us › Toggle navigation Home Main UK Thesaurus › Alternative Terms › Rejected Terms › Welcome to UKAT UKAT is a subject thesaurus which has been created for the archive sector in the United Kingdom. It is a controlled vocabulary that archives can use when indexing their collections and catalogues. Key aims are: To improve access to archives by subject. To ensure that users of archives can carry out effective subject searches of archives across the UK. To promote the involvement in archives by groups which are under-represented among archive users, by providing subject terms which reflect their histories and experiences. UKAT is based on the broad, coherent, high-level UNESCO Thesaurus structure, and covers education, science, culture, social/human sciences, information, communication, politics, law and economics. UNESCO was used as the basis for UKAT because a number of archives and archive projects, including The Archives Hub, had adopted it for indexing purposes. However, UNESCO sometimes lacks the depth of detailed terminology required by UK archives. UKAT therefore incorporates terms that UK repositories and projects have contributed, or have been sourced from other schemes such as Library of Congress Subject Headings and the British Education Thesaurus. Particular emphasis has been given to incorporating terms reflecting the histories and experiences of groups that are under-represented among archive users. This aims to encourage participation in archival heritage, in line with national priorities for the sector. Recent Additions: The Georgian Papers Programme The archive and library collections being digitised for the Georgian Papers Programme  are estimated to exceed 350,000 pages of material. UKAT is the subject term thesaurus being used for subject indexing to enhance the Programme’s original catalogue records. Where gaps within the thesaurus are identified, terms derived from Programme metadata enhancement work are considered for inclusion in the thesaurus. This is expected to add more terms and concepts relevant to the 18th century as well as those relating to current research lines of enquiry including statecraft and material culture. TOBIAS TOBIAS , the Thesaurus of British and Irish History as SKOS, is a significant source of terms derived for use in the Georgian Papers Programme. The inclusion of TOBIAS terms in UKAT is allowed under the TOBIAS Creative Commons BY-NC-SA  licence. Latest terms: Battle of San Domingo (1806) Located in › 8. Events› 8.05 Historical events› Battles› Naval battles Atlantic campaign of 1806 (1806) Located in › 8. Events› 8.05 Historical events› Campaigns Siege of Santo Domingo (1808-1809) Located in › 8. Events› 8.05 Historical events› Battles› Land battles Spanish Reconquest of Santo Domingo (1808-1809) Located in › 8. Events› 8.05 Historical events› Battles› Land battles Burning of Washington (1814) Located in › 8. Events› 8.05 Historical events› Military operations About UKAT UKAT is a subject thesaurus and controlled vocabulary that UK archives can use when indexing their collections and catalogues. Our key aims are:To improve access to archives by subjectTo ensure that archives’ users see relevant and consistent subject searchesTo promote involvement in archives by under-represented archive user groups by providing subject terms which reflect their histories and experiences.UKAT was created between June 2003 and August 2004 from subject terms contributed by individual archives, projects and users, as part of a project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), with additional funding, management and support from the The National Archives and University of London Computer Centre (ULCC).The initial creation of UKAT was overseen by an advisory panel of archivists together with a group including representatives of family history societies and archive users organisations. Since 2004, AIM25 (Archives in London and the M25) has steadily added to the subject thesaurus with the addition of new terms and vocabularies, chosen and validated by archive professionals. Ongoing curation and maintenance of the thesaurus is now carried out on a voluntary basis by the AIM25 team and by IMAGIZ.UKAT is supported by the AIM25 charity  Quick Links:Main UK Thesaurus ›Alternative Terms ›Rejected Terms ›Contact Us › © Copyright 1997 - 2021 : UKAT - UK Archival ThesaurusPrivacy Policy ›   Site Map ›