Hi all,

 

The point, I think, is that this is a tool developed nationally, that can be used to support the work that many of us are doing locally.  There will presumably be lots of local groups in our areas wanting to record their WWI heritage and this is something we can fairly quickly point to and ensure that what we’re getting back has some consistency. Hopefully it will save a lot of time, as we won’t have to reinvent the wheel and produce toolkits locally, or worse, not have the resources to produce anything at all!

 

Sheena

 

 

 

I agree Chris,

At a local scale you can control how the data comes in. You also know who and what you can trust in terms of research.

But I’m sure there’s lots of WWI related sites in every part of the country.

We just need to find the most effective way to take the opportunity of the centenary to enhance our HERs.

 

Pete

 

 

Hi Pete,

 

If your volunteers have been able to gather comprehensive and accurate data that’s great.

 

However, there will be  differences between the DoB data and the WWI data that you’ve gathered.  DoB was a big project with data gathered, via an outside agency, by many volunteers working all over the country. You, on the other hand, will have been able to work directly with a far smaller set of volunteers. I would imagine that the national WWI project may well be more similar to the DoB project (although I would hope that some lessons from that project will be taken on board) than to your no doubt excellent WWI project.

 

Chris

 

 

Chris, I wouldn’t be so sure. We’ve had our own volunteers working on enhancing our WWI data and this is the result. Points and polygons -

http://maps.bristol.gov.uk/knowyourplace/?maptype=js&theme=none&layer=World+War+I+locations+(areas);World+War+I+locations+(points)

 

Louise, is there a way to bulk upload this material to the Home Front Legacies database?

 

Pete

 

 

Hi Helen,

 

A lovely idea, but I would like to check the data before it goes into the HER.

 

I recall some 15 years or more ago, when I was at Staffs, when I received a load of data from Defence of Britain, in essence as a digital printout. My heart sank and I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if all this data could be fed directly into the SMR.’ (Old terminology I know, but it was a while ago!).

 

Then I started to check the data. Most of it related to pill boxes and other features on a Stop Line that ran down the Dove, onto the Trent, and up the Tame to disappear into Warwickshire. I rapidly found by checking it against APs that data supplied from DoB data was incomplete (several pill boxes that were still extant were missing from the data) and there were many inaccuracies (mainly NGRs were a bit off and some were or just plain wrong).

 

I don’t imagine that there will be all that much WWI data for the city; mainly war memorials, but I would not wish to just feed it in to the HER without first checking it.

 

Chris         

 

 

Exciting!!

 

Can I ask if it’s still intended to do this:

“It is hoped to develop an import tool to enable auto-ingestion for HBSMR users.”

Because that would be brilliant.  J

Helen Wells
Historic Environment Record Officer
Leicestershire County Council

Planning, Historic & Natural Environment, Leicestershire County Council, County Hall, Glenfield, Leics, LE3 8RA
Telephone: 0116 3058323 / E-mail: [log in to unmask]

 

 

 

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