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!Archaeology Scotland
Formerly the [Council for Scottish Archaeology|Glossary#CSA], Archaeology Scotland is a national charity, helping people from all walks of life to get more involved with archaeology through learning, promotion and support for Scotland's unique historic environment. Archaeology Scotland coordinates Scottish Archaeology Month each September and publishes Discovery and Excavation Scotland, an annual summary of fieldwork undertaken across the country each year. See their [website|http://www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk/|target='_blank'] for more details.
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Archaeological Standard Protocol for the Integrated Reporting of Events (Scotland)
Archaeological Standard Protocol for the Integrated Reporting of Events (Scotland). ASPIRE is a protocol specifying the data structure, data type and required fields for reporting archaeological information to the [SMRs|Glossary#SMR] and [RCAHMS|Glossary#RCAHMS]. See the [website|http://aspire-resource.info/|target='_blank'] for more details.
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!BIM
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the digital representation of the physical and functional characteristics of places. BIM software is used to design, construct, operate and maintain diverse physical infrastructures, from services (water, wastewater, electricity, gas, refuse and communication utilities) to roads, bridges and ports, from houses, apartments, schools and shops to offices, factories, warehouses and prisons. More information can be found on [National BIM Standard website|http://www.nationalbimstandard.org/faq.php#faq1|target='_blank].
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Canmore is the name given to the [RCAHMS|Glossary#RCAHMS] database. It contains details of c.250,000 archaeological sites, monuments, buildings and maritime sites in Scotland, together with an index to the drawings, manuscripts and photographs in the [NMRS|Glossary#NMRS] collections. Images of some of the photographs or drawings in the collection are also available in Canmore. Searches can be made on name, location, site type or collection, or by using the Canmore mapping service, [CANMAP|Glossary#CANMAP].
[Canmore|http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/|target='_blank'] is the window into the [RCAHMS|Glossary#RCAHMS] database. It brings together the results of the survey and collections material into one place and combines location information, site details and images on more than 300,000 archaeological, architectural, maritime and industrial sites throughout Scotland. Through MyCanmore users can add their own information and images to the national collection.
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Council for Scottish Archaeology. The CSA is a voluntary membership organisation that works to secure the archaeological heritage of Scotland for its people through education, promotion and support.
Council for Scottish Archaeology. The CSA is a voluntary membership organisation that works to secure the archaeological heritage of Scotland for its people through education, promotion and support. Now known as [Archaeology Scotland|Glossary#Archaeology Scotland]
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!DOI
Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) are persistent identifiers used to consistently identify an object such as an electronic document. DOIs have associated metadata which may describe a location, such as a [URL|Glossary#URL], where the object can be found or the creator or publisher of the resource. Even though the metadata about the object may change, the DOI for a document remains fixed over the lifetime of the document.
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!HeritageData.org
National cultural heritage thesauri and vocabularies have acted as standards for use by both national organizations and local authority [Historic Environment Records|Glossary#HER] but until now have lacked the persistent Linked Open Data (LOD) URIs that would allow them to act as vocabulary hubs for the Web of Data. Through the [SENESCHAL|Glossary#SENESCHAL] project key vocabularies from the England, Scotland and Wales have been published as linked open Data with persistent URIs. For more information visit the [Heritage Data Linked Data Vocabularies for Cultural Heritage website|http://www.heritagedata.org/blog/|target='_blank'].
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!HES
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) is to be created in 2015 by bringing together [Historic Scotland|Glossary#Historic Scotland] and the [Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland|Glossary#RCAHMS]. HES will be the new lead public body for the Historic Environment in Scotland.
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!Historic Environment Strategy for Scotland
[Our Place in Time – The Historic Environment Strategy for Scotland (2014)|http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2014/03/8522|target='_blank'] is a high level framework which sets out a 10 year vision for the historic environment and is owned, not by Government, but by the people of Scotland. It identifies a set of strategic priorities which will help to align and prioritise sector activity towards a common goal. It is therefore owned, not by Government, but by the people of Scotland. The key outcome of the Strategy is to ensure that the cultural, social, environmental and economic value of Scotland’s heritage makes a strong contribution to the wellbeing of the nation and its people.
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Historic Scotland is an Agency within the Scottish Executive Education Department and is directly responsible to Scottish Ministers for safeguarding the nation’s built heritage, and promoting its understanding and enjoyment.
Historic Scotland is an Agency within the Scottish Executive Education Department and is directly responsible to Scottish Ministers for safeguarding the nation’s built heritage, and promoting its understanding and enjoyment. See also [HES|Glossary#HES]
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HLAMAP is a web-based presentation of [HLA|Glossary#HLA] data for Scotland that allows the user to view the data by Historic Land-use Type, Period or Category as well as by Relict Period and to print out a report of any selected area.
[HLAMAP|http://hla.rcahms.gov.uk/|target='_blank'] is a web-based presentation of [HLA|Glossary#HLA] data for Scotland that allows the user to view the data by Historic Land-use Type, Period or Category as well as by Relict Period and to print out a report of any selected area.
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!INSPIRE
The [INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe) Directive (2007)|http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/|target='_blank'] mandates all European Union member states to share environmentally related datasets so that they can be easily accessed by other public organisations within their own country and in surrounding European countries. Key to delivering INSPIRE is the establishment of [Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs)|Glossary#SDI]. SDIs embrace the policies, human resources and related activities needed to acquire, process distribute, use maintain and preserve spatial data.
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!Linked Data
Linked Data is about using the Web to connect related data that wasn't previously linked, or using the Web to lower the barriers to linking data currently linked using other methods. Linked Data describes best practice for exposing, sharing, and connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic Web using URIs and RDF. For more information see the [Linked Data website|http://linkeddata.org/|target='_blank].
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!MEDIN
[The Marine Environment Data and Information Network (MEDIN)|http://www.oceannet.org/|target='_blank] is a partnership of public and private sector UK organisations set up to promote good governance of marine survey data. Marine data is expensive to collect and provides a unique snapshot in time and location of the richness and condition of Scotland’s coasts and seas. MEDIN encourages the consistent application of standards to improve discovery of, access to and re-use of geographical data across the marine industry through a series of Accredited Data Archive Centres (DACs).
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!NCAP
NCAP is the National Collection of Aerial Photography. It is one of the largest collections of aerial imagery in the world, containing tens of millions of aerial images featuring historic events and places around the world. It is the role of NCAP to collect and secure the future of these records, both digital and physical, to preserve them for generations to come, and to make them as accessible and available as possible. Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, our operational and development costs are funded through commercial enterprise. For more information see the [NCAP website|http://ncap.org.uk/|target='_blank].
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!One Scotland, One Geography
[One Scotland – One Geography; a geographic information strategy for Scotland (2005)|http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/08/31114408/44098|target='_blank] sets out a proposed approach to the more systematic and effective use of geographic information in the development and delivery of policy and services to the benefit of the people of Scotland.
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A map enabled query system for Scottish National Archaeological and Architectural Datasets.
PastMap brings together map-based information from many different sources, providing a single point of access to information about the archaeological and architectural sites and landscapes of Scotland. Hosted by [RCAHMS|Glossary#RCAHMS] in partnership with [Historic Scotland|Glossary#Historic Scotland] and local government archaeological curators, PastMap includes information about [World Heritage Sites|Glossary#WHS], Scheduled Monuments, Listed buildings, Gardens and Designed Landscapes, The Battlefields Register, [Conservation Areas|Glossary#Conservation Area], most [Local Authority Historic Environment Records|Glossary#HER] and [Canmore|Glossary#Canmore]. For more information visit the [Pastmap website|http://pastmap.org.uk/|target='_blank'].
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Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The mission of RCAHMS is to help people to value and enjoy their surroundings, to provide a world-class record of the historic and built environment to local, national and international audiences, as well as advancing understanding of the human influence on Scotland’s places from earliest times to the present day. We achieve this through strategic field investigation, research and our dynamic national collection, which together provide a unique, authoritative and internationally important resource for the study and management of the historic and built environment. See also [HES|Glossary#HES]
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Scottish Coastal Archaeology and the Problem of Erosion.
A Scottish charity that seeks to research, conserve and promote the archaeology of Scotland's coast. SCAPE is especially interested in remains that are threatened by coastal erosion. The charity has developed [SCHARP|Glossary#SCHARP] to record sites threatened by erosion. For more information see the [SCAPE website|http://www.scapetrust.org/|target='_blank']
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!SCHARP
Thousands of archaeological sites are threatened with destruction through coastal erosion. In response [SCAPE|Glossary#SCAPE] developed Scotland’s Coastal Heritage at Risk Project (SHARP) to involve more people in actively recording threatened sites. For more details visit the [project website|http://scharp.co.uk/|target='_blank'].
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!Scotland's Places
ScotlandsPlaces is a website using geographic location to search across different national datasets from [RCAHMS|Glossary#RCAHMS], The national Record of Scotland and the national Library of Scotland. Users may search by place name or a coordinate across these collections or they can use the mapping in the website to both define and refine their search. The results pages provide the data relevant to the search conducted, from each of the project partners.
Through TranscribeScotlandsPlaces members of the public help create transcriptions of various resources in the website. These resources are images of historic archives which contain handwritten information about the people and places in Scottish history.
Visit the [ScotlandsPlaces website|http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/|target='_blank'] for more details.
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Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network.
Scran is an online learning service with over 390,000 images and media from museums, galleries, and archives. Its charitable purpose is "the advancement of education by enabling public access to Scottish cultural resources and related material.” For learning, there are Pathfinders for instant use; and tools such as Curriculum Navigator, Albums, Stuff, Create, Multicreate, Offline Slieshow and Slides let you discover, store, design, assemble and share your own learning resources. For more information see the [SCRAN website|http://www.scran.ac.uk/|target='_blank'].
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!SDI
A Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is the technology, policies, human resources and related activities necessary to acquire, process, distribute, use, maintain and preserve spatial data.
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!SENESCHAL
A one year AHRC funded Knowledge Exchange project based on enhanced vocabulary services that aims to make it significantly easier for vocabulary providers ([English Heritage|Glossary#English Heritage], [RCAHMS|Glossary#RCHAMS] and [RCAHMW|Glossary#RCAHMW]) to make their vocabularies available as [Linked Data|Glossary#Linked Data] and for users to index their data with uniquely identified (machine readable) controlled terminology that is semantically enriched and compatible with Linked Data. For more information see the [project page|http://www.heritagedata.org/blog/about-heritage-data/seneschal/|target='_blank'] available on the [HeritageData.org|Glossary#HeritageData.org] website.
!SHED
Scotland’s Historic Environment Data (SHED) Strategy is a partnership to help protect, promote and enhance Scotland’s historic environment through coordinated activity to improve the quality, systems and processes for SHED. The partnership includes government agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and academic institutions, and will support the public’s involvement in the care and enjoyment of the historic environment through the improved and more efficient provision of information. See the [SHED page|http://smrforum-scotland.org.uk/shed/|target='_blank'] on the [SMR Forum|Glossary#SMR Forum (Scotland)] website for more details.
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!SRP
Scotland's Rural Past (October 2006 to September 2011) was a five year initiative, run by the [RCAHMS|Glossary#RCAHMS] with partnership funding. SRP worked with local communities to research, record and promote Scotland's vanishing historic rural settlements and landscapes. Over 60 community-led projects improved our understanding of Scotland's rural heritage, from Shetland to the Scottish Borders. For more information see the [project website|http://www.scotlandsruralpast.org.uk/|target='_blank'].
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!SUP
Scotland’s Urban Past (SUP) is a five-year [HLF|Glossary#HLF] funded project commencing in Autumn 2014. SUP encourages and supports communities across the country to investigate, record, engage with, and celebrate the heritage of our towns and cities.
SUP will be one of the first major projects to be launched by [Historic Environment Scotland|Glossary#HES], the new lead body for recording, collecting and promoting Scotland’s historic environment.More details can be found on the [RCHAMS website|http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/rcahms-projects/scotlands-urban-past|target='_blank'].
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!SURE
The Specialist User Recording Environment (SURE) enables partners in national, local and third sector organisations across Scotland to enter information directly through web distributed forms into the [RCAHMS|Glossary#RCAHMS] database and published online on [Canmore|Glossary#Canmore].
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!TDR
A Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) provides reliable, long-term access to managed digital resources both now and in the future.
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West of Scotland Archaeological Service.
The West of Scotland Archaeology Service was established in 1997 by Minute of Agreement between 12 Councils of the former Strathclyde regional council. The purpose of the Service is to maintain and update the [Historic Environment Record (HER)|Glossary#HER] - the complete record of all known archaeological sites, finds, fieldwork and research for the West of Scotland. Staff from the Service also provide professional advice to landowners, public utilities, private developers, farmers and other land managers to promote the implementation of national and international policies for the preservation of archaeological remains. In addition, we provide free information and advice to researchers, local societies and members of the public. For more information see the [WoSAS website|http://www.wosas.net/|target='_blank'].
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