Discovering England's Burial Spaces: Supporting community heritage

TY - JOUR

T1 - Discovering England's Burial Spaces

T2 - Supporting community heritage

AU - Pillatt, Toby

AU - Green, Katie

AU - Maxwell, Deborah

AU - Mytum, Harold

AU - Richards, Julian D

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PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - Discovering England’s Burial Spaces (DEBS) was a two-year project to develop new tools and resources in support of community-led recording of the above-ground archaeology and tangible heritage of burial spaces. This article focuses on the role community groups had in the process of designing and building parts of the new surveying workflow, paying particular attention to the design of the recording system, the role of the digital tools in supporting surveys, and the barriers that might prevent community groups from archiving their research. While the focus is very much on these issues as they played out within the DEBS project itself, the challenges encountered and lessons learnt have implications for Citizen Science projects more broadly, and for researchers and heritage professionals developing new methodologies and tools.

AB - Discovering England’s Burial Spaces (DEBS) was a two-year project to develop new tools and resources in support of community-led recording of the above-ground archaeology and tangible heritage of burial spaces. This article focuses on the role community groups had in the process of designing and building parts of the new surveying workflow, paying particular attention to the design of the recording system, the role of the digital tools in supporting surveys, and the barriers that might prevent community groups from archiving their research. While the focus is very much on these issues as they played out within the DEBS project itself, the challenges encountered and lessons learnt have implications for Citizen Science projects more broadly, and for researchers and heritage professionals developing new methodologies and tools.

KW - gravestones

KW - graveyard

KW - DEBS

KW - cemetery survey

KW - digital heritage

KW - community groups

KW - data standardization

KW - archiving

U2 - 10.1080/20518196.2021.1894786

DO - 10.1080/20518196.2021.1894786

M3 - Article

SN - 2051-8196

VL - 9

SP - 88

EP - 102

JO - Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage

JF - Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage

IS - 2

ER -