IFP Wiki: SectionI

I: Useful websites

I.1 National organisations
I.2 Training and professional development
I.3 Information technology and the World Wide Web
I.4 GIS
I.5 Data standards and guidance
I.6 Disaster control plans
I.7 Online maps
I.8 Historic Environment Records
I.9 Thematic recording projects
I.10 Storage and digital archiving
I.11 Access to information
I.11.1 Equality
I.11.2 Copyright
I.11.3 Freedom of Information
I.11.4 Education
I.11.5 Information gateways/portals
I.11.6 National databases and Collections

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I.1 National organisations#

Archaeological Data Service: http://archaeologicaldataservice.ac.uk/

Archaeology Scotland: http://archaeologyscotland.org.uk

Association of Local Government Archaeological Officers: http://www.algao.org.uk

Audit Commission: www.audit-commission.gov.uk/

Cadw: http://www.cadw.wales.gov.uk/

Collections Trust http://www.collectionstrust.org.uk/

Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA): http://www.cosla.gov.uk/

Council for British Archaeology: http://www.britarch.ac.uk

Deptartment for Communities and Local Government: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-culture-media-sport

Deptartment for Culture, Media and Sport: Dehttps://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-culture-media-sport

Heritage Lottery Fund: http://www.hlf.org.uk

Heirnet Consultancy: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/HEIRNET

Historic England: http://www.HistoricEngland.org.uk

Historic Scotland: www.historic-scotland.gov.uk

Institute of Historic Building Conservation: Institute of Historic Building Conservation

Local Government Association: http://www.lga.gov.uk

Museums Association: http://www.museumsassociation.org

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland: http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales: http://www.rcahmw.org.uk

Royal Institute of British Architects: http://www.architecture.com/Explore/Home.aspx

Scottish Government: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/

Welsh Government: http://www.wales.gov.uk

Welsh Local Government Association: http://www.wlga.gov.uk/

I.2 Training and professional development#

ADS Guide to Good Practice for Excavation and Fieldwork Archives: http://guides.archaeologydataservice.ac.uk

ADS: training opportunities for archaeologists: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/userinfo/training.html

The Archaeology Training Forum: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/training/atf.html

The Campaign for Learning: http://www.campaign-for-learning.org.uk

Chartered Institute for Archaeologists - Professional Development: http://www.archaeologists.net

Council for British Archaeology Briefing: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/briefing/courses.html

Creative and Cultural Skills: http://www.ccskills.org.uk/

exeGesIS SDM Ltd: http://www.esdm.co.uk/training

ESRI UK: http://www.esriuk.com/training-pages/find-courses

Harvard Business School: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu

Historic Environment Local Management (HELM): http://www.historicengland.org.uk/advice/planning/local-heritage/helm-redirect

Investors in People (UK): http://www.investorsinpeople.co.uk

Looking at Buildings (an introduction to architecture): http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/index.html

National occupational standards in Archaeological Practice: http://www.torc.org.uk/nos/index.asp

Nautical Archaeological Society: http://www.nauticalarchaeologysociety.org/content/what-nas-training-programme

The Skills Funding Agency: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/skills-funding-agency

Society for Museum Archaeology: http://www.socmusarch.org.uk/train.htm

TUC Learning Services: http://www.unionlearn.org.uk

Union Learning Fund: http://www.unionlearningfund.org.uk

University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education: https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/index.php

University of Leicester Heritage Practice Training Courses http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/history/heritage

Weald and Downland Museum: http://www.wealddown.co.uk/learn/adult-learning/

I.3 Information technology and the World Wide Web#

Anti-virus (general information) http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST04-005.html

Brief history of the internet: Brhttp://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml

The CD Information Center: http://cd-info.com

The Cloud: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing

Data recovery example: http://www.ontrack.co.uk

Firewalls: http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci212125,00.html

Intranets: http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci212377,00.html

IT security warning service: http://www.itsafe.gov.uk/

McAfee (virus protection software): http://www.mcafee.com/uk/

PKZIP: http://www.pkware.com

Proxy servers: http://searchsmallbizit.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid44_gci212840,00.html

Site design (Royal National Institute of Blind People): http://www.rnib.org.uk/professionals/webaccessibility/Pages/web_accessibility.aspx

Social Media: http://www.historicengland.org.uk/research/research-results/activities/5c1

http://digitalfutures.rcahms.gov.uk/

Symantec (Antivirus Research Center): http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/index.html

Web Accessibility initiative: http://www.w3.org/WAI

Web Portals: http://www.w3.org/2002/07/DIAT/posn/sun-portal.html

What is FTP: http://kb.iu.edu/data/aerg.html

WinZip: Whttp://www.winzip.com/winzip.html

World Wide Web (W3C) Consortium: http://www.w3.org/

Writing for the Web: http://www.usability.gov/how-to-and-tools/methods/writing-for-the-web.html

XML Guide: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_whatis.asp

XML UK: the United Kingdom Forum for Structured Information Standards: http://www.xmluk.org/

Z39.50 for all: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue21/z3950

I.4 GIS#

ADS GIS Guide to Good Practice: http://guides.archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/g2gp/Gis_Toc

ArcGIS: http://www.esriuk.com

The Association for Geographic Information: http://www.agi.org.uk

Getmapping®: http://www2.getmapping.com

MapInfo: http://www.mapinfo.com/

Ordnance Survey PAI programme: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/help-and-support/navigation-technology/pai-link-files.html

Inspire Directive (UK Government page): http://data.gov.uk/location/inspire

Open Source GIS: http://opensourcegis.org/

I.5 Data standards and guidance#

Archaeology Data Service/Digital Antiquity - Guides to Good Practice: http://guides.archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/

ASPIRE: http://www.aspire-resource.info

CIDOC: http://www.cidoc-crm.org/

Digital Scotland: http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Economy/digital

Dublin Core: http://dublincore.org/

Forum on Information Standards in Heritage (FISH): http://fishforum.weebly.com/

FISH Interoperability Toolkit: www.heritage-standards.org.uk

HER Forum: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/herforum

Heritage Data Standards and Terminology (includes links to other data standard sites): https://www.historicengland.org.uk/advice/technical-advice/information-management/data-standards-terminology/

Historic Environment Polygonisation Standards (Scotland): http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/historic-environment-polygonisation-standards-scotland.html

INSCRIPTION: http://www.fish-forum.info/inscript.htm

Metadata: http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/briefing-papers/standards-watch-papers/what-are-metadata-standards and http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/

MIDAS Heritage: http://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/midas-heritage/

SENESCHAL: http://www.heritagedata.org/blog/about-heritage-data/seneschal/

UK GEMINI: http://www.agi.org.uk/join-us/agi-groups/standards-committee/uk-gemini

UNESCO theasurus: http://databases.unesco.org/thesaurus/

I.6 Disaster control plans#

Business continuity management toolkit: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/137994/Business_Continuity_Managment_Toolkit.pdf

Business continuity management plan (example template): https://www.camden.gov.uk/ccm/content/policing-and-public-safety/emergencies/filestorage/basic-business-continuity-management-plan-template/

National Archives - Documents: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/memo6.pdf

I.7 Online maps#

The British Library: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/mapsviews/index.html

Genmaps - England, Scotland and Wales: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genmaps/

The National Library of Scotland Map collection (Maps and guide to symbols and abbreviations): http://maps.nls.uk/

Old Maps online: https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#

I.8 Historic Environment Records#

Archwilio (includes contact details for the Welsh HERs): http://www.archwilio.org.uk/

Heritage Gateway (contact details for English HERs): http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/CHR/ SMR Forum Scotland (includes contact details for Scottish HERs and SMRs): http://smrforum-scotland.org.uk/her-contacts/

I.9 Thematic recording projects#

Airfield Research Group: http://www.airfieldresearchgroup.org.uk/

Archaeological Investigations Project (1990 - 2010): http://csweb.bournemouth.ac.uk/aip/aipintro.htm

Association for Industrial Archaeology: http://www.industrial-archaeology.org.uk/

British Sundial Society: http://www.sundialsoc.org.uk/

Corpus of Roman Mosaics: http://www.asprom.org

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture: Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture

Defence of Britain Project (1995 - 2002): http://www.britarch.ac.uk/projects/dob

Englaid: English Identities and Landscapes: http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/projects/englaid

The Folly Fellowship: The Folly Fellowship Garden History Society

Historical Metallurgy Society: http://hist-met.org

Home Front Legacy 1914 - 1918: http://www.homefrontlegacy.org.uk/wp/

Images of England Project: http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/

National Inventory of War Memorials: http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/

National Piers Society: http://www.piers.co.uk

Portable Antiquities Scheme: http://www.finds.org.uk

Public Monuments & Sculpture Association http://www.pmsa.org.uk/

Roman Rural Settlement Project: http://www.reading.ac.uk/archaeology/research/roman-rural-settlement/ Survey of the Jewish Built Heritage: Survey of the Jewish Built Heritage

Tiles & Architectural Ceramics Society: http://www.tilesoc.org.uk/

Parks and Gardens UK: http://www.parksandgardens.ac.uk/

I.10 Storage and digital archiving#

Archaeology Data Service/Digital Antiquity - Guides to Good Practice: http://guides.archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/

Museums Association: http://www.museumsassociation.org/

Museums Libraries and Archives Council (no longer exists and the link is to the archived version of its website): http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110802101741/http://mla.gov.uk/home

I.11 Access to information#

Heritage Information Access Stratergy (HIAS): http://fishforum.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/2/7/14279169/intro_update_to_hias_her_forum_09-12-2014.pdf

INSPIRE Directive: http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/

INSPIRE Implementation in Local Government: http://www.local.gov.uk/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=e9f32268-2f12-4824-a73d-dc2ba2319ced

Scotland's Historic Environment Data (SHED): http://smrforum-scotland.org.uk/shed/

I.11.1 Equality#

Action for Hearing Loss (Formerly the Royal National Institute for the Deaf): http:\\www.rnid.org.uk

British Sign Language: http://www.british-sign.co.uk/

Disability Rights: http://www.direct.gov.uk/DisabledPeople/RightsAndObligations/YourRights/YourRightsArticles/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4001068&chk=eazXEG

Document Translation: http://languageline.co.uk/solutions/translation/document-translation/?gclid=CNTbs4er38MCFQ_KtAod-zcA2g

Equality and Human Rights Commission: http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/

Next Generation Text Service (for those using ‘text’ phones (or Minicom): http://ngts.org.uk/

Plain English Guides: http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/

Royal National Institute for the Blind: http:\\www.rnib.org.uk

Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography: http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/cucap/

Church Plans Online Project (Anglican churches throughout England and Wales): http://www.churchplansonline.org/

Historic England Archive: http://www.historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/archive-services/

Historical Directories of England and Wales (University of Leicester Special Collections Online): http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16445coll4/hd/index.asp

HLAMap (Historic and modern land use in Sctoland): http://hla.rcahms.gov.uk/

Images of England: http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/

MAGIC: http://www.magic.gov.uk

The National Heritage List for England (NHLE): https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list

OASIS: http://oasis.ac.uk/pages/wiki/Main

OpenGeoscience: http://www.bgs.ac.uk/opengeoscience/

Pastmap: http://www.pastmap.org

PastScape: http://www.pastscape.org.uk/

Portable Antiquities Scheme: https://finds.org.uk/

Wales Historic Landscapes Register: http://www.ccgc.gov.uk/landscape--wildlife/protecting-our-landscape/historic-landscapes.aspx

Scottish Palaeoenvironmental archive: http://xweb.geos.ed.ac.uk/~ajn/spad/index.html

SCRAN (Digital images): http://www.scran.ac.uk/

Vision of Britain (information from the Great Britain Historical GIS Project) Visiohttp://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/

I: Useful websites

I.1 National organisations#

I.2 Training and professional development#

I.3 Information technology and the World Wide Web#

I.4 GIS#

I.5 Data standards and guidance#

I.6 Disaster control plans#

I.7 Online maps#

I.8 Historic Environment Records#

I.9 Thematic recording projects#

I.10 Storage and digital archiving#

I.11 Access to information#

I.11.1 Equality#

I.11.2 Copyright#

I.11.3 Freedom of Information#

I.11.4 Education#

I.11.5 Information gateways/portals#

I.11.6 National databases and Collections#

A: Introduction to HERs#

B: How do you manage an HER?#

C: Recording practice guidelines#

D: How do you compile, maintain and enhance an HER?#

E: Characterisation and its uses in the HER#

F: Access to the HER#