Navigational Aids for the History of Science, Technology, and the Environment Project

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}} {{Use British English|date=December 2017}} The '''Navigational Aids for the History of Science, Technology, and the Environment Project''' (NAHSTE) was a research archives/manuscripts cataloguing project based at the University of Edinburgh. Following a proposal led by Arnott Wilson in 1999,<ref name="wilson">{{cite web |first=Arnott |last=Wilson |url=http://www.bath.ac.uk/ncuacs/FP_Wilson.htm |title=A NAHSTE Experience: Edinburgh's History of Science, Technology and the Environment Project |accessdate=1 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060713183532/http://www.bath.ac.uk/ncuacs/FP_Wilson.htm |archivedate=13 July 2006 }}</ref> the project received £261,755 funding from the Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP) from 2000 until 2002.<ref>{{cite journal | first=Ian| last=Mowatt| editor-first=Nick|editor-last=Stroud| url=http://www.docs.is.ed.ac.uk/bits/2002/2002-09-september.pdf |title=New Horizons |date=September 2002 |publisher=University of Edinburgh |journal=Edinburgh Bits - Bulletin of C&IT Services |volume=13 |issue=1 |page=7 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rslp.ac.uk/projects/research/26.htm |title=RSLP Projects : Navigational Aids for the History of Science, Technology and the Environment (NAHSTE) |accessdate=1 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070613033845/http://www.rslp.ac.uk/projects/research/26.htm |archivedate=13 June 2007 }}</ref>

The project was designed to access a variety of outstanding collections of archives and manuscripts held at the three partner Higher Education Institutions (HEIs); the University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow and Heriot-Watt University and to make them accessible on the Internet. The project additionally included linkages to related records held by non-HEI collaborators.<ref name=NahNP>{{cite web |title=NAHSTE Project 2002 |publisher=University of Edinburgh |url=http://www.nahste.ac.uk |accessdate=3 December 2006 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061001175740/http://www.nahste.ac.uk/ |archivedate=1 October 2006 }} NAHSTE-overview</ref>

Descriptions of the material conform to ISAD(G) (Second edition), whilst information about key individuals conform to ISAAR(CPF). Catalogues were tagged using the Encoded Archival Description XML standard.<ref name="wilson" />

Although the project was completed in 2002, the resulting web service continues to be hosted at Edinburgh.

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==External links== * {{official website|http://www.nahste.ac.uk|name=NAHSTE website}} - homepage with links to online collections.

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