Hi,

 

Many thanks for all the replies on and off list to this; it’s been really helpful.  I'll have a look through the HER Forum archives and minutes of the ALGAO HER Committee meetings too, as suggested.

 

As Graham says, strong guidance in England would be good…tricky though, if no one can agree I guess!

 

Best wishes,

 

Nikki

 

 

Nichola Manning | Historic Environment Record Officer

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Hi,

As Sarah mentioned, INSPIRE was mentioned at the last few ALGAO-UK HER Committee meetings (see minutes at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=HERFORUM&f=/ALGAO_HER_Committee). It's also been mentioned on HER Forum email list and at the Winter 2013 HER Forum meeting.

As Peter says, there is uncertainty over where HER data sits within INSPIRE. In Scotland, they are in the fortunate position of having strong guidance about INSPIRE.

There is an open action from the last ALGAO-UK HER Committee meeting for Ben Wallace (chair of ALGAO-UK HER Committee), to speak to the Warwickshire GIS team and to the Local Government Association / Defra about what work would be required to go under Annex III of INSPIRE, and to then discuss INSPIRE at the next ALGAO-UK HER Committee meeting (on 10th June).

There seems to be some strong differences-of-opinion in the HER community over whether having HER data in INSPIRE is a good thing or not.  My personal thought is that there needs to be some good guidance on this for England (and maybe incorporate this within the emerging HER Strategy and the Heritage Information Access Strategy?).

Best regards,

Graham

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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter McKeague [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 31 March 2015 07:46
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Subject: Re: [HERFORUM] INSPIRE

 

Hi

 

There was some discussion on INPSIRE and cultural heritage dat on the HERFORUM in May (27-30th) 2014. 

 

 

There is uncertainty over where HER data sits within INSPIRE and that is rooted in the nature of the directive itself where cultural heritage is largely overlooked. As a result the uncertainty filters down to national and local authority level. I have argued that HER and other data lies within the Protected Sites theme as it is managed through other effective means.

 

In Scotland we are in the fortunate position of having strong guidance in the One Scptland, One Geography strategy from 2005 as well as a Scottish Statutory Instrument for INSPIRE implementation which enables us to take a slightly different approach than maybe being steered elsewhere.    

 

In Scotland there is a strong expectation  that environmental data should be available through a single portal (SeWEB) and that is driven by view and download services - WMS and WFS. If Historic Environment data is not visible, we can hardly complain if it is ignored or excluded from schemes that might be designed to benefit it (e.g. rural stewardship).

 

Historic Environment data is also presented on PastMap -again with ambitions to consume live feeds, or at least regularly updated WMS / WFS to address the issue of dynamic data from the HERs.

 

Peter

 

Database and GIS Projects Manager

RCAHMS.