HER databases - the Welsh context: HERs as indexes not archives, a low-cost responsive future?
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 2015-08-03

Presented by Chris Martin at the 2015 CIfA Conference, Cardiff.

HEROS (Historic Environment Records Open System) is a powerful, online integrated data management system allowing secure and controllable access to and analysis of 'traditional' data alongside digital mapping, documents and images.  But where did it come from? This paper looks at the development of this system by the four Welsh Archaeological Trusts, the amalgamation of the four Welsh Historic Environment Records into a single data system, the creation of Archwilio (the public front end fro the system) and development of the android mobile app which allows interrogation and data capture on the move .