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The National Archives organisation

Digital directorate

The digital directorate at The National Archives is responsible for all public National Archives services and is made up of several departments:

  • Digital Services (DS)
  • Digital Archiving (DA)
  • Legislation
  • Web Archiving (WA)
  • Cataloguing, Taxonomy and Data (CTD)
  • IT Operations (ITOps)

Technical Leads Group

The technical leads group at The National Archives is a team of senior and lead engineers across a number of departments.

You should be able to contact any of them for help with technical questions. They may also direct you on to someone more able to help.

Name Department Backend Frontend Infrastructure/Security Cataloging/Data Other
Alex Ford CTD - - - -
Andrew Curry DS - - - Discovery
Andrew Hosgood DS - - Accessibility
Anthony Hashemi DA - - - -
Ian Hoyle DA - - - -
Karl Kern DS - - - -
Kurtis Mash DA - - - -
Paul Young WA - - - -
Sam Palmer DA - - - PRONOM
Sion Salmon ITOps - - - -
Steven Hirschorn DS - - - -
Tom King DA - - - -