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Designated Heritage
Martin Newman
Enriching The List Project Manager
@MartinInfoMan
National Heritage List for England
• Listed Buildings
(376,198)
• Scheduled Monuments
(19,854)
• Registered Historic Parks
and Gardens (1,634)
• Registered Battlefields
(46)
• Protected Shipwrecks
(49)
• World Heritage Sites
(18)
Figures correct on 09/06/15
Apsley house, London ©Historic England 2005 2K/15630
Old Sarum © Crown Copyright.NMR Ref: NMR 4117/15
Studland Bay Wreck Archaeological Diving Unit. Crown
Witley
Court ©
English Heritage 2006 2k/10327
Copyright
© English
Heritage
Battle re-enactment © English Heritage 2005 2K/05331
Total NHLE Entries
397,799
Index Migration to UDS
Record of Scheduled
Monuments
Listed Buildings System
Scheduled
Monuments
Listed
Buildings
Parks and Gardens
Registration System
Registered
Parks and
Gardens
Lists of sites derived
from GIS Attributes
table
Registered
Battlefields
AMIE (National Record
of Historic Environment)
Protected
Wrecks
Unified
Designation
System
Data Mapping Matrix
Heritage Asset Phasing: asset type
Heritage Asset Phasing: vocabulary
mapping
• UDS uses Thesaurus of Monument
Types
• RSM used two separate flat lists
which do not match
• LBS uses a thesaurus of building types
that largely matches
• AMIE uses Thesaurus of Monument
Types
• Each system used dates and/or period
to create phases for the entries
• AMIE and RSM use controlled period
lists
• LBS does not use the concept of
period
• Most scheduled monuments had only
a period classification with no dates
Heritage Asset Phasing: date & period
People
• Only LBS and AMIE record historic people
• Structured fields making up each person record:
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–
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Surname
Forename
Initials
Salutation (controlled list)
Dates of Birth and Death (AMIE only)
Pseudonym (New Concept in UDS)
• Issues of duplication from combining data from People lists in
AMIE and LBS
• Role (controlled list used to link a person record to a record of
a Heritage Asset)
Name
Address
Grade
Description
Data Cleaning
• Editing and ‘strimming’ indexing data:
– Sources
– Historic people
– Historic organisations
• Adding ‘missing’ listed buildings
• Correcting incorrectly OCR’d text in descriptions
• Incorrect indexing e.g. road bridge and rail
bridge
• Merging amendment text into the description
Minor Amendments
• Procedures agreed with DCMS to make small
changes to entries without creating full cases eg:
– Address changes
– Correcting Spelling mistakes in original documents
– Standardising List Entry Names including:
• Points of the compass
• Church names ‘Church of St…..’
– Spatial corrections
– Other minor errors that will not change the status or
grade.
Minor Amendments Since May 2011
Text
Spatial
7,255
15,371
124
370
Parks & Gardens
48
43
Wrecks
10
0
Battlefields
48
0
7,485
15,784
Listed Buildings
Scheduled Monuments
TOTAL
Total Minor Amendments
23,269
Wrecks
Battlefields
Spatial
Parks & Gardens
Text
Scheduled Monuments
Listed Buildings
Figures correct on 09/06/15
0
2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
12,000
14,000
16,000
18,000
From Responsive to Strategic
• What errors are users reporting the most
• Information risk assessment and log
– Reputational Risk
– Data Protection Act
• Delisting legally demolished buildings
• Duplicate listings
(c) Historic England 2006
Enriching The List
• Part of new offers
from Historic England
• Crowd sourcing:
– additional information
about NHLE entries
– Photographs
• Moderated content
• Organisational culture
change
Moderation Flowline
Drivers
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Digital by default
Open Government
Compliance
Information Risk
Pressure on the NHLE helpdesk
New Offers from Historic England
Culture Change
Martin Newman
Enriching The List Project Manager
[email protected]
@MartinInfoMan
Raising of Tower Bridge John Gay, 1946-64.
© Historic England NMR AA077028
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