News and events

English Heritage splits into two organisations

March 31, 2015 Authors: Digital Standards Unit

English Heritage has been a long-standing member of FISH. From 1 April 2015 English Heritage will separate into two organisations. English Heritage will become a charity and continue to cater for the national Heritage Collection of over 400 historic places and collections. Historic England will remain a Government service offering expert advice on heritage and carry on working with FISH on…

TACOS one day seminar

May 14, 2014 Authors: Digital Standards Unit

Towards a Collaborative Strategy for sector information management (TACOS) On 14 May 2014 the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) will host a one day seminar on behalf of FISH and HEIRNET at the University of York to discuss common issues facing the historic environment information sector and make progress towards a shared vision and agenda for historic environment information management…

MIDAS Heritage and Qatar HER

November 01, 2013 Authors: Digital Standards Unit

The Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) and the VISTA Centre at University of Birmingham have recently developed a bespoke bilingual and fully integrated Cultural Heritage Management Application in Access database and ArcGIS. The new customized application uses Open Source code. The MIDAS Heritage data standard - developed and expanded by FISH in 2008 - was reviewed as part of the development process…

New Working Group for under-represented and intangible heritage

August 31, 2013 Authors: Digital Standards Unit

A new Special Interest Group has been set up for Under-Represented and Intangible Heritage (URIH-SIG). Over the last few years various projects and seminars have explored ways in which heritage organizations can make their records more accessible to users interested in aspects of faith, gender, ethnicity, women, sexuality and intangible heritage (e.g. folklore, music, dance). To assist in the…

Heritage vocabularies as Linked Open Data

June 30, 2013 Authors: Digital Standards Unit

English Heritage, the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, the Archaeology Data Service and the University of South Wales are pleased to announce that cultural heritage thesauri and vocabularies are now freely available as Linked Open Data as a preliminary outcome of the SENESCHAL project at: http…