ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an account of the project funded by the AHRC in 2006-8 to complete the online database guide to the National Trust's Ellen Terry and Edith Craig archive. The online database provides a description of each item, as well as an indication of its location. The data collection for the online database has been carried out at item level, with brief descriptions of the content of letters and supplementary information recorded in a general notes. The chapter also provides an enhanced description of the archive as described in the online database, with an outline of its scope and content. It further, by the IT consultant on the project, Julian Halliwell of Simplicity Web.co.uk, summarizes the approach to the design, construction and functionality of the online database. The aim of the online version of the Ellen Terry and Edith Craig database was, according to the technical consultant's brief, to give the research community and the wider public direct access via the internet to the extensive catalogue of papers created by Dr Katharine Cockin.
