Parks & Gardens UK project New vistas for historic designed landscape records.
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Parks & Gardens UK projectNew vistas for historic designed landscape records.
Rachael SturgeonProject Manager, PGDS
Janet E. DavisWeb Manager, PGDS
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Project aims
• Encouraging volunteers to research & record
• Collating information from other sources
Creating
• database
• web site
• educational resources
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Specific project aims
• 6,000 records of sites in England & Wales
• 1,000 records of sites in Scotland & Northern Ireland
• References records
• Archives sources
• Associated Person records
• Associated Organisation records
• Digital images & digital image records
• 20 themed educational resources
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Who is involved?
• Parks & Gardens Data Services– not-for-profit company set up by:
• IT contractor • hosting service
• Supported by
and
• Volunteers
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Who is involved? Stakeholders
Advisory Panel
Experts include representatives from:
English Heritage
RCAMHW
Hampshire County Council
Consultative Group
Volunteers organisations - NADFAS, County Gardens Trusts, NCCPG
Universities
Culture 24
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Who is it for?Experts Non-experts
Site owners/managers Archaeologists Historians
Heritage professionals Planning professionals Design professionals
HE & FE students Life-long LearnersUK schoolchildren
General public Volunteers Tourists
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Accessibility issues - physical and technological
Front end of web site
Need to allow for:
• people with disabilities, especially with visual impairments, including colour blindness;
• slow dial-up internet access
• older hardware and software
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Database interface
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Intellectual accessibility - navigation
Providing methods to access the database records that do not require:
• prior knowledge of historic parks & gardens;
• knowledge of UK geography or local authority areas;
• good spelling or high level of literacy.
Building a semantic bridge using navigation
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Find records
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Map-based Search
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Intellectual accessibility - images
Building a semantic bridge using description
• People ‘read’ pictures according to what they know.
• Need to describe what is where.
• What is obvious to one expert will not be obvious to another from a different discipline.
• Accessibility for visually-impaired.
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Intellectual accessibility - writing styleBuilding a semantic bridge using writing style
• Using plain English or providing explanations of specialist terms
• Abbreviations and acronyms written in full.
• ‘Friendly’ but objective style.
• Concise, short sentences.
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Controlled vocabulary
Example of early controlled vocabulary list for terms to describe the context or principal building for historic parks and gardens.
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The Thesaurus within the database
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Data entry form - Context
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Illustrated Glossary
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Illustrated Glossary - Front End
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Back end content editor
• Designed to be used by staff with no or little HTML knowledge.
•Incorporates easy entry of basic metadata.
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Front end content editor
• Next stage - letting volunteers add their own articles from the front end.
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Conclusion
Accessibility
Sustainability
Delivery of content
www.parksandgardens.ac.uk