Database of Archives of UK Non-Governmental Organisations (DANGO)

Project start date: 2005-10 Project end date: 2008-01
This AHRC-funded project provides information on the availability of records relating to non-governmental organisations and pressure groups active in the UK since 1945. The database is fully searchable and provides information on the history of the organisation as well as details about the location of archival records relating to it.
Era(s): 
Country/region(s): 
Methods usedCategory
Cataloguing and indexingData structuring and enhancement
Searching and queryingData analysis
Funding sources: 
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created: 
Text
Digital resource created:  
The material is concerned with detailing the archives of Non-governmental organisations and the location of these. A description is given of the NGO, year of formation, types of areas it works in plus a description of the nature of its archive and where this is located.
Access to digital resource:  
Open Access
Data Formats created: 
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Metadata standards employed: 
Dublin Core, simple (DC)
Publications:  
James McKay and Jean Francois Mouhot 'DANGO: Database on the archives of non-governmental organisations in UK since 1945' Contemorary British History 4 (2007) 513-523
N. Crowson, M. Hilton, J. McKay (eds) NGOs in Contemporary Britain: Non-State Actors in Society and Politics since 1945 Basingstoke: Palgrave (forthcoming 2009)

Institutions affiliated with this project: 

UK HE institutions involved:
University of Birmingham

Project staff and expertise: 

Principal staff member:Dr Nicholas Julian Crowson; Professor Matthew Hilton; Dr James McKay; Dr Jean-Francois Mouhot
Other staff:Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s)
External expertise:


Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record
Author(s) of recordNicholas Crowson
TitleDatabase of Archives of UK Non-Governmental Organisations (DANGO)
Record created2008-04-21
Record updated2010-06-11 11:17
URL of recordhttp://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2286
Citation of recordNicholas Crowson: Database of Archives of UK Non-Governmental Organisations (DANGO).
<http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2286>
created: 2008-04-21, last updated 2010-06-11 11:17