Dear all
Recent discussion on HER Forum
has raised a number of concerns relating to the flow of English Heritage reports
and data to HERs. We are looking at ways in which we can improve the
existing arrangements and hope
that the following information and the introduction of a number of forthcoming
initiatives will be helpful to HERs.
Historical assessment of sites
from the MoD disposals
programme: English Heritage can only obtain access to these sites
at the invitation of the MoD. The process
is first to ask the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (
Further details on the transfer
of information can be found in the summary of questions and replies following
Wayne Cocroft’s talk to HER Forum summer meeting in
http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway/news/detail.aspx?ctid=102&id=5161
EH Research Report Series: Investigation & Analysis Division
staff have instructions to send copies to the relevant HERs as a matter of
course and this is also written into the report series guidelines. Reports that
are national in nature and do not contain information of special relevance to
individual HERs are an exception. These reports are available via OASIS and also
via the Research Report Series database under publications on the EH website.
From January 2014 news articles on EH
research with links to related reports will feature in an electronic version of
Research News. HERs can subscribe to this by visiting http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/rnsubscribe.
We will also flag reports from national surveys created under the NHPP on
HER Forum when a url becomes available to provide a direct
link.
PastScape data: EH applied research, particularly but not
exclusively in the area of aerial investigation & mapping, results in the
creation of