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The 1939
Register was taken at the outbreak of World War II as a means of allocating
ration cards, managing military service eligibility and went on to be used
as the basis of the National Health Service registration scheme. It has
iconic value as a data set, being the only surviving census-type record for
the UK
between 1921 and 1951.
The paper
will describe the challenges of creating a digital record containing
information about living individuals using a commercial licensee. These
issues include:
secure off-shore
transcription of personal data
redaction
of images to protect living individuals in a record set which inclued
babies born in 1939 and
management
of sensitive information such as adoption codes which require lengthy
closure periods
To allow
the open information form the Register to be published, a project team of
digitisation, FOI, statistial, commercial, Data Protection and legal
experts ran a 12 month competition process which attracted 30 expressions
of interest, and 12 ITT submissions before awarding the contract to
Scottish company DC Thomson Family History. Production will be underway at
the time of the conference, with publication planned for September 2015.
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