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Cambridgeshire Heritage Gateway Pilot Sarah Poppy [email protected] Heritage Gateway Previews Why join the Heritage Gateway? Rapid and cost-effect means of establishing HER online Strong belief in common access point to Historic Environment information No need to reinvent the wheel! Economies of scale and potential for future capacity building (mapping, delivery of proposed Register of Historic Sites and Buildings of England) Why we became a pilot? Involvement with Heritage Gateway via ALGAO and HBSMR user group Keen to test and demonstrate concept Long-term aspirations to put HER online Objective in Archaeology Service Plan Online HER access required to support newly established SLAs with districts Demand from local community! HLF route or in-house development not viable options Cambridgeshire was first HER to go live on the Heritage Gateway in April 2007! Processes involved – HBSMR Gateway Had to follow local authority compliance procedure Some difficulty in engaging with IT department Don‘t underestimate time and effort required! Preinstallation discussions between IT department, exeGesIS and HER Software and hardware prerequisites (SQL server, web server) Consideration of which data to put online Customisation of HER record layout 2 day site visit to install and configure Desktop routine to manually upload HER data Remote support provided by exeGesIS and IT department What the HG is intended for? Increased public and education sector access to HER records, without need for consultation Provide background/context information for all research Enable HER resources to be targeted at professional enquiries, data enhancement and digitisation and future developments e.g. meeting requirements of HPR Building much-needed links between local and national datasets Major fieldwork projects W of Cambridge 1990-2006 3% 8% Users of Cambridgeshire HER 2005 (Total = 1265) 1% 4% Academic 9% Consultant 6% 3% 0% 1% 3% 2% Contractor Education Local History Group Media Outreach Personal interest Miscellaneous research/advice Planning - consultation appraisals 60% Planning - preparing briefs Agri-environmental schemes What the HG is not intended for? Not replacing the need for planning-related HERs consultations Why not? Some datasets not accessible via HG, such as Scheduled Monuments, Listed Buildings, fieldwork, cropmark transcription Will not contain information about projects in progress “Sensitive sites” may be withheld from public access NGRs are 6-figure only GIS data not available at present Potential concerns Quality of data HER data is published “as is” Culmination of 5-year data enhancement project However no mediated “public access” content, and older records of variable quality Loss of income Average £4k p.a generated from HER enquiries Income from other sources e.g. SLAs, selling GIS data HG should not replace planning-related enquiries - will require monitoring! Standing still was not an option … The future: dissemination and beyond… Spreading the word Launched at Cambridgeshire Archaeology Forum in June HG preview events at five locations Hands-on sessions in libraries and learning centres Local society workshop at Cambridge Antiquarian Society Conference Promotion via CCC website EH project to make village/parish linkages The future: dissemination and beyond… In the future… Formalising IT support arrangements Collation of feedback and web-statistics HLF bid in preparation for community archaeology project includes development of online education and thematic resources Ongoing digitisation projects to add supporting content and resources (grey literature, images etc) Key requirement is ability to hyperlink to single HG record