A SCHEME to make the North-East's history available on the Internet is being developed by a computer software company with offices in the region.
ESRI (UK), of Pity Me, Durham City, will develop and supply software for Tomorrow's History, Britain's first regional studies website.
The company, a leader in the supply of geographic information and map-related software, aims to design a system to provide a history of every town and village in the North-East.
It will offer access to maps, photographs and records.
The project is being overseen by Information North, the regional development agency for libraries and information services, after it secured a £400,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant.
Project director Patrick Conway, Durham County Council's director of arts, libraries and museums, said: "Signing up with ESRI (UK) is a great leap forward for Tomorrow's History. We have a clear knowledge of the collections we will digitise and a commitment from colleagues in museums, libraries and archives to open access to their collections through the Internet."
Mr Conway said the agreement with ESRI (UK) allows the task of creating thousands of pages of images and documents to begin.
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