Quote Originally Posted by roy croft View Post
Whenever your software rewrite happens (I sense nobody should engage in breath holding in the interim) will existing tartan registrations likely be recategorized?
Just to be clear, it's not my software re-write, I am but a member of the Tartan Advisory Committee. The problem is, as I understand it, one of server capacity and the fact that all the National Archives are centralised. There is much work to be done to rationalise and update various Dbs and the NTR one is pretty much at the back of the queue. When (if?) that does happen then there will be a rationalisation of certain categories; Portrait/Artefact for example is a pretty meaningless term and a category that has been used as a dumping ground for pre-NTR setts that don't fit eslewhere.

When (if?) the NTR update does happen then the majority of existing records will remain unaffected. Where we feel that a new/existing tartan should be in the Other category then it is being temporarily assigned elsewhere, Fashion for example with a tag noting that it is to be moved when the upgrade takes effect.