Heritage Information Access Simplified (HIAS) is a programme of interlinked projects designed to simplify and improve public access to heritage data held or generated by Historic England, by Local Authority Historic Environment Records (HER) and by other bodies.
… interlinked projects designed to simplify and improve public access to heritage data…
Historic England writes:
Heritage Information Access Simplified (HIAS) is a programme of interlinked projects designed to simplify and improve public access to heritage data held or generated by Historic England, by Local Authority Historic Environment Records and by other bodies….
Eight key principles for the strategy
We set out eight basic principles at the start to gather partners together with a set of shared goals and common aims.
- Principle 1: Local Authority HERs should be the first point of call for and primary trusted source of investigative research data and knowledge
- Principle 2: Historic England should be the first point of call for and primary trusted source of national datasets, such as the National Heritage List for England and national marine heritage dataset
- Principle 3: Historic England, together with its partners, should continue to champion the development, maintenance and implementation of standards for the creation, management, sharing, re-use and storage of digital historic environment data
- Principle 4: Investigative research data or knowledge should be readily uploaded, validated and accessed online
- Principle 5: A national overview should continue to be delivered online through the Heritage Gateway.
- Principle 6: Such data or knowledge should not be at risk of loss, fragmentation, inundation (in data), or system obsolescence
- Principle 7: Historic England should, on behalf of the nation, ensure that a security copy of all such data exists in accordance with Principles 3 and 6.
- Principle 8: Digital data should be supported by material archives in safe repositories accessible to the public.
