Deputations is likely to be required as a Preferred Term. Included here as NPT but this may change during the course of the project and the term may be upgraded to appear as a BT for various types of deputation.
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 subject
To ensure that archives' users see relevant and consistent subject searches
To promote involvement in archives by under-represented archive user groups by providing subject terms which reflect their histories and experiences.
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.
