The Future is Coming, and it’s User-shaped!

Mike Pringle

English Heritage

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

Multiple Platforms

• Oracle

• Access

• SQL Server

• Classic ASP

• .NET

Information Architecture

ViewFinder I of E

Thesaurus

PastScape

English HeritageMain Site

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

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...

Portal Potential...

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Purpose - Why?

ViewFinder I of E

Thesaurus

PastScape

English HeritageMain Site

Purpose - Why?

Tourists to England Professionals School Children And so on….

ViewFinder I of E

Thesaurus

PastScape

English HeritageMain Site

Purpose - Why?

• Not What?

Purpose - Why?

• Not What?

• …but Who!

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