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Lessons for the Digital Age
David Myers and Janet Hansen
A critical first step in the conservation of cultural heritage is to identify and understand the places we want to protect. Inventories and related data-collection activities such as surveys are essential tools in this effort, and heritage-related legislation across the globe now universally mandates their use. However, despite wide understanding of the importance and critical role of inventories and surveys in documenting heritage places, practical, up-to-date guidance on how these instruments should be created, implemented, and maintained has been sorely lacking—until now.
This publication provides a step-by-step guide to identifying, recording, and managing information on heritage resources as a basis for their conservation and management. It is drawn from the Getty Conservation Institute’s two decades of experience and research in this topical area, including ongoing work related to its open-source Arches Cultural Heritage Data Management Platform and, previously, the creation of the Middle Eastern Geodatabase for Antiquities (MEGA)-Jordan. It is also drawn from SurveyLA, a multiyear undertaking that was a joint project of the City of Los Angeles and Getty and is considered the largest American urban historic resource survey to date.
David Myers is a senior project specialist at the Getty Conservation Institute. Janet Hansen is former deputy manager, Office of Historic Resources, Los Angeles Department of City Planning.
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