The City of Lincoln has joined in an international partnership to develop a new heritage database system for use by UK heritage management organisations, ‘Arches’, and is seeking input from conservation colleagues to secure suitable historic environment conservation standards by inviting IHBC members to a forthcoming IHBC CPD-recognised workshop in Liverpool on 29/30 March 2017.
Joint project leads at Lincoln, Sarah Harrison, Principal Conservation Officer, and Alastair MacIntosh, City Archaeologist, said: ‘As you may be aware, we at City of Lincoln have joined in a partnership with Historic England and the Getty Conservation Institute to develop a new heritage database system for use by UK heritage management organisations. It is called Arches, and is being used effectively by many organisations around the world. We’ve become conscious that existing heritage database systems in the UK don’t necessarily provide everything that conservation officers might wish, and as such we’ve been working hard to ensure that the new system is equally as capable in the management of above ground heritage as it is for archaeological sites and monuments.’
‘We would very much welcome input from conservation colleagues into the process, and as such we would like to invite your members to register for a forthcoming workshop on the project.’
For a link to an active Arches system see Historic Places Los Angeles as a good example
