Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development: Volume 6 Issue 2

Heritage inventories: promoting effectiveness as a vital tool for sustainable heritage management

David Myers

The purpose of this paper is to identify key elements of what makes an inventory program effective for cultural heritage conservation and management. It is hoped that it will spur…

Evolution of national heritage inventories for Scotland and Wales

Peter McKeague, David Thomas

The purpose of this paper is to present a review of the origins and development of national inventories in Scotland and Wales from paper-based records to digital databases. The…

Recording the past: heritage inventories in England

Philip Carlisle, Edmund Lee

The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the history of heritage inventories in England and look at the requirements for a future vision of networked, digital…

SAHRIS: South Africa’s integrated, web-based heritage management system

Kathryn Smuts, Nonyameko Mlungwana, Nicholas Wiltshire

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the South African Heritage Resources Information System (SAHRIS), developed by the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) in…

On data-driven systems and system-driven data: Twenty years of the Flanders heritage inventory

Koen Van Daele, Leen Meganck, Sophie Mortier

Over the past 20 years, heritage inventories in Flanders (Belgium) have evolved from printed books to digital inventories. The purpose of this paper is to look at this evolution…

Creation of cultural heritage inventories: case of the historic city of Ahmadabad

Khushi Shah

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the relevance of cultural heritage inventories and documentation as critical tools for heritage conservation and management in historic…

Concurrent and sustainable development of a local-scale digital heritage inventory through action research at Bat, Oman

Yasuhisa Kondo, Takehiro Miki, Taichi Kuronuma, Yuichi S. Hayakawa, Kyoko Kataoka, Takashi Oguchi

The purpose of this paper is to present a concurrent implementation of sustainable inventory for the UNESCO World Heritage sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn in the interior of…

The Arches heritage inventory and management system: a platform for the heritage field

David Myers, Alison Dalgity, Ioannis Avramides

The purpose of this paper is to describe the Arches heritage inventory and management system for the benefit of practitioners working with heritage inventories. Arches is a modern…

Guest editorial

David Myers and Mario Santana Quintero

Corrigendum