SCAN to be replaced by new Your Scottish Archives platform

Following my post yesterday about the disappearance of the Scottish Archives Network (SCAN) website, which appears to have happened because the domain registration has not been renewed (see http://scottishgenes.blogspot.com/2021/11/scan-website-down-but-catalogue-still.html), I asked the Scottish Council on Archives (www.scottisharchives.org.uk) for a comment. They have responded as follows:

We are not aware of any plans to make SCAN inaccessible currently - we will do a bit of investigating. The development of the new portal is well underway with content planned to be transferred from SCAN next year. A fuller update can be found here: https://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/news/new-archives-portal-announced/

The SCA's announcement of a replacement for SCAN, to be called Your Scottish Archives, is one that I missed last year. The report linked to above notes that "SCA plans to launch the new Your Scottish Archives towards the end of 2022. The project has been delayed by the pandemic and lockdowns but we are back on track. We will be contacting repositories in early 2022 to start the process of collecting data."

In the meantime, I have also asked the National Records of Scotland if it can redirect users of its catalogues page at https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/catalogues-and-indexes to the SCAN catalogue link at https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/scancatalogue/search.aspx rather than to the currently non-working www.scan.org.uk domain, if there is a problem in renewing its registration. (I can't imagine a reason for this not to be possible.)

(With thanks to the SCA via Twitter at @ScotsArchives)

Chris

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