1. Old Places, New Ideas
New routes into Canmore, the National
Inventory of Scotland
Susan Casey, Rebecca Jones & Peter McKeague

2. RCAHMS:
• Identifies, surveys and analyses the built
environment of Scotland
• Preserves, cares for and adds to the
information and the items in its national
collection
• Promotes public understanding and
enjoyment through interpretation and
presentation of the information it collects and
the items it looks after

3. RCAHMS surveys
Crown Copyright RCAHMS

4. RCAHMS photographic survey
Crown Copyright RCAHMS

5. RCAHMS drawing survey
Crown Copyright RCAHMS

6. RCAHMS aerial survey
Crown Copyright RCAHMS

7. RCAHMS historic photographs
Crown Copyright RCAHMS

8. RCAHMS prints and drawings
Crown Copyright RCAHMS

9. National Collection of Aerial Photography
Crown Copyright RCAHMS

10. RCAHMS PUBLICATIONS
Crown Copyright RCAHMS

11. Digitising a century of survey

12. How the Record Evolved
1908 RCAHMS Inventory
1941 Scottish National Buildings Record
1950 Card index set up by OS
1966 National Monuments Record created
1974 First local SMRs started
1977 SIAS established
1983 Transfer of OS records to RCAHMS
1985 Transfer of SIAS to RCAHMS
1992 Transfer of vertical APs to RCAHMS
1995 Maritime record established
2011 BARR joins RCAHMS

13. RCAHMS Projects with large-scale data input
1976 AP Survey
1977 Rapid Field survey
1989 Afforestable Land Survey
1995 Defence of Britain
1995 Maritime record
1995 First Edition Survey Project (FESP)
1996 Architecture Catalogue Project
1996 Listed Buildings Liaison Programme (LBLP)
1999 Scottish Architects’ Papers Preservation Project
2004 Exploring your Heritage
2006 Scotland’s Rural Past
2009 MyCanmore
2010 SURE
2011 Buildings at Risk

14. Digitising a century of survey
Base mapping: © Crown Copyright and database right 2012 All rights
reserved. OS Lic. No. 100020548

15. Canmore

16. Canmore

17. CANMORE

18. CANMORE

19. CANMORE

20. CREATING A COLLABORATIVE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT
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21. CREATING A COLLABORATIVE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT:
The Pragmatic Reality

22. CREATING A COLLABORATIVE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT:
Specialist User Recording Environment

23. CREATING A COLLABORATIVE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT:
Specialist User Recording Environment

24. CREATING A COLLABORATIVE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT:
Making the data available

25. CREATING A COLLABORATIVE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT:
Trusted Users
Crown Copyright RCAHMS

26. CREATING A COLLABORATIVE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT:
Trusted Users
Crown Copyright RCAHMS

27. CREATING A COLLABORATIVE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT:
Trusted Users

28. CREATING A COLLABORATIVE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT:
Trusted Users

29. CREATING A COLLABORATIVE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT:
Trusted Users
Crown Copyright RCAHMS

30. CREATING A COLLABORATIVE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT:
User Generated Content

31. CREATING A COLLABORATIVE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT:
User Generated Content

32. CREATING A COLLABORATIVE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT:
Other Means of Ingest

33. CREATING A COLLABORATIVE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT:
Reporting other work
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34. CREATING A COLLABORATIVE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT:
Learning to let go

35. CREATING A COLLABORATIVE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT:
Learning to let go

36. CREATING A COLLABORATIVE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT:
The next steps

37. Old Places, New Ideas
New routes into Canmore, the National Inventory of Scotland
Susan Casey, Rebecca Jones & Peter McKeague
@Susan_IC