Brigham, Rosie;
Orr, Scott;
Wilson, Lyn;
Frost, Adam;
Strlic, Matija;
Grau-Bove, J;
(2022)
Using Citizen Heritage Science to Monitor Remote Sites Before and During the First COVID-19 Lockdown: A Comparison of Two Methods.
Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites
10.1080/13505033.2022.2147299.
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Abstract
This paper proposes citizen heritage science as an effective method to gather reliable data for monitoring and documenting heritage sites. For large heritage organisations the monitoring and documentation of sites in their care presents considerable challenges; continual monitoring of smaller, unstaffed, and more remote sites is often not practical. However, heritage sites are often popular destinations that receive high levels of visitors who carry increasingly sophisticated mobile phones. It seems logical that heritage organisations capitalise on using visitors’ images to record and monitor remote heritage sites. We compare two methods for data collection: a ‘guided’ approach, in which on-site signage prompts visitor submissions; and an ‘open’ approach, in which the public is asked to send any photographs they have of the site in question. We analyse the different results in collected data from these two approaches and hope to encourage heritage institutions to set up similar projects.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Using Citizen Heritage Science to Monitor Remote Sites Before and During the First COVID-19 Lockdown: A Comparison of Two Methods |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13505033.2022.2147299 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13505033.2022.2147299 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Remote monitoring; conservation; surveying; participatory methods; crowdsourcing; historic environments |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10157778 |
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