Dear Ben,
Thank you for posting a bit more about the Saint Helena HER. It is very interesting to see other HERs around the world, a reminder of how international HER Forum is! (Thank you to Trevor for sending the link in the first place)
Are there any articles or papers about how the HER has been set up? I'm interested (and I'm sure a few more on here are too!) as to how the data was collected, what some of the fields mean and what the purpose of the HER is.
Looking at the website I noticed that all monuments have grades. In England usually only certain types of designated sites (e.g. listed buildings) have grades. Most non-designated HER monument records are not graded. I couldn't find any information on the website explaining how the grading system worked - will this be added later?
I would also like to know more about the thesauri being used and other data standards. The interface only seems to have monuments but does the HER also include Events and Sources? Did MIDAS Heritage influence the design of the database?
It would be interesting to compare the set up and intended use of the Saint Helena HER with other HERs.
All the best
Sarah
Sarah MacLean MA MIfA
Heritage Information Partnerships Supervisor
English Heritage
Designations Department
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Subject: Re: Saint Helena HER
Dear All,
I thought a bit of background and a caveat to the link would be useful. The data isn't really the Saint Helena HER, it needs to go through a public consultation phase before it can be called that; the Saint Helena Government are trying to work out how they want the process to work, so everything in it is provisional.
The exciting bit is the interface, which is an experiment built on free open source software. The mapping and database are all google fusion tables holding 1000 records (they will do 100k for free!), 30k survey points (all differential GPS to sub cm) and 3k photographs held on Flickr. You can't see the backend for managing the data, which is where most of the work went. It shows some real promise for situations where there aren't the funds to manage complex systems in house, and for some situations where they are. It still needs some work to the user interface, so be gentle.
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