The Future is Coming, and it’s User-shaped! Mike Pringle English Heritage
Dec 30, 2015
Modernising Government
“A new target of all dealings with government being
deliverable electronically by 2008”
Modernising Government White Paper March 1999
Multiple Data Formats
• General Information
• National Monuments Record
• Listed Buildings
• Photographic Archives
• Spatial Information
• Data Standards
Information Architecture
ViewFinder IoE
Thesaurus
PastScape
English HeritageMain Site
Data Set Data Set Data Set Data Set
Co-ordination
• Data Standards
• Meta-data
• Thesaurus Terminology
• ICT Standards
• Interoperability
Portal Potential...
Homepage of Sven Haremoppa
Swedish Ungulates:•Moose•Reindeer
Homepage of Bruce Dannunder
Australian Monotremes:•Echidna•Duck-billed Platypus
Portal Potential...
Homepage of Sven Haremoppa
Swedish Ungulates:•Moose•Reindeer
Homepage of Bruce Dannunder
Australian Monotremes:•Echidna•Duck-billed Platypus
Mammals Portal
AustralianSwedish
HoofedEgg-laying
Restaurants Portal
???? Portal
By countryBy class
VegetarianExotic
Homepage of Sven Haremoppa
Swedish Ungulates:•Moose•Reindeer
Homepage of Bruce Dannunder
Australian Monotremes:•Echidna•Duck-billed Platypus
Mammals Portal
AustralianSwedish
HoofedEgg-laying
Portal Potential...
Purpose - Why?
Tourists to England Professionals School Children And so on….
ViewFinder I of E
Thesaurus
PastScape
English HeritageMain Site
Demonstration
• Two examples of EH online projects that provide novel interfaces to multiple data sources.
Demonstration
• PastScape - the National Monuments Record online: www.pastscape.org
Demonstration
• EH Illustrated Heritage Thesaurus Online:
www.heritage-thesauri.org.uk