First World War Minesweeping
Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire Archives have recently received the archive of the Aberdeen Steam Fishing Vessels Owners' Association Ltd , known locally as the Trawler Owners (understandable when you consider the length of their official title!) The collection was t ransferred to us from our colleagues in the AAGM curatorial team at the Treasure Hub. In a dd ition to the records themselves, the curators were able to transfer their excellent detailed descriptions of all the items in the collection from their TMS software . With a bit of tweaking (museum and archive cataloguing standards are slightly different , both in terms of how collections are arranged and the data fields required ) this data was uploaded into our CALM catalogue and can now be searched here . The benefits of this collection being managed in an archive is that the descriptions can be viewed hierarchically, allowing researchers to understand connections and relationships between items, which isn’t as