[MassHistPres] 'Tis the season for RFPs for historical property surveys

[Lee Wright]

Good luck to all of you undertaking new surveys.

Is anyone considering using a system that makes capturing and sharing the information efficient and scalable, such as any of the systems or approaches listed below, or others?  

-- Lee Wright  |  Marlborough


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> - A commercially available system used by communities in Kansas, Texaa, and Kentucky -- http://www.ruskinarc.com/site/index_save.php?utm_expid=56864529-0
> - A system being developed by Getty and other partners that is being used now for a city-wide historic resource survey of LA -- http://www.getty.edu/conservation/our_projects/field_projects/arches/ -- 
> - A system being developed at UT-Austin with support from the Texas Historical Commission and others -- http://beta.austinhistoricalsurvey.org/ -- 
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> Details on the second and third are below.
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> http://www.ruskinarc.com/site/index_save.php?utm_expid=56864529-0
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> The Getty Conservation Institute and the World Monuments Fund are collaboratively creating such as system with web-based, open source software. An advanced version of the software code will be released in June 2013. I understand they are creating a not-for-profit group to oversee upkeep of the software. The original project was to develop a cultural heritage management system for use in Iraq during the war but the project was relocated to Jordan. Jordan now apparently uses this system nationally with their heritage staff having received training on the system. Several European countries then expressed interest in making the system more broadly available for use. (For instance it sounds like English Heritage is interested.) And now a version of the system is being used for a city-wide historic resource survey of Los Angeles. It’s about to become available to everyone.   
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> http://www.getty.edu/conservation/our_projects/field_projects/arches/
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> http://archesproject.org/
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> Don’t know if this will suit your needs but seems like it could be the start of a major advancement.
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> Robert A Myers, AICP
> Planning Division Manager
> Community Development Services Dept
> 400 S Vine Street
> Urbana, IL 61801
> (217) 384-2440
> (217) 384-0200 FAX
> ramyers at urbanaillinois.us
> www.urbanaillinois.us
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> http://beta.austinhistoricalsurvey.org/
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>> Here at UT-Austin, we have created an online survey system for the City of Austin (with support from Preserve America, the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, and a CLG grant from the Texas Historical Commission). Our beta version launched on June 4, 2012; you can see it at http://beta.austinhistoricalsurvey.org/. We're working now on our Survey Wiki 2.0, and on migrating the Wiki to its permanent home with the City of Austin. 
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>> The Austin Historical Survey Wiki is built on open-source software. Our intention and our funders' intention is for it to be available to other interested communities. That said, we have nothing like a plug-and-play version comparable to RuskinARC. Adapting the Wiki elsewhere will require resources (programmer time, server space). Happy to discuss further. We will be presenting at this year's National Trust conference in Indianapolis (as we did in a session last year in Spokane).
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>> Michael
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>> ___________________________________________________
>> Michael Holleran
>> Director, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation
>> School of Architecture, University of Texas
>> Austin, Texas, 78731
>> holleran at utexas.edu
>> 512.471.3792
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