SAHRIS: South Africa’s integrated, web-based heritage management system

Smuts, Kathryn; Mlungwana, N.; Wiltshire, Nicholas

doi:10.1108/jchmsd-01-2016-0002

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“…SAHRIS system is a tool that focuses on recording what are currently known or approved as 'heritage' places, whether these are tangible or intangible heritage resources, and records them in the form of reports for online documentation (Smuts & Mlungwana, 2016). This documentation supports the INTERPOL in its combat of heritage crime by providing access to a database that enables them to return stolen items (Smuts & Mlungwana, 2016). The following are the policies based on which the SAHRIS system was formed (see Figure 12): • Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA).…”

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Identifying The Role of Project Management in Sustainable Refurbishment of Heritage Buildings

Mohamed

Dewidar

Elattar³

et al. 2021

Journal of Urban Research

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Cultural heritage is considered one of the major valuable resources that improve the quality of life. Therefore, protecting as well as enhancing its value through applying sustainable refurbishment process is a major challenge that needs to be properly managed. The problem is although there are a number of studies that are concerned with sustainable refurbishment, cultural heritage refurbishment management and its impact on reducing the probability of demolition remain under researched. In 2018, the UNESCO stated that 58% of the global cultural heritage buildings got demolished over the past 18 years. Moreover, in the same year, a research paper stated that there is a gap between urban development and cultural heritage conservation. Therefore, the purpose of this study is concerned with identifying the role of sustainable refurbishment management in reducing the probability of applying heritage demolishing principles that lead to facing the risk of demolition heritage buildings. In this regard, qualitative and quantities methods were used in this paper to gather secondary data (from of literature review), and preliminary data (from case studies of cultural heritage projects, and survey). Results of this paper identified the mutual relation between sustainable refurbishment principles, their relation to heritage value, and the impact of this relation on demolition principles in the form of extant literature and case studies.

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Identifying The Role of Project Management in Sustainable Refurbishment of Heritage Buildings

Mohamed

Dewidar

Elattar³

et al. 2021

Journal of Urban Research

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“…Since going online in 2012, SAHRIS has served as a digital inventory of the 'National Estate' as defined in the NHRA and a formal list declared heritage resources. It also acts as a case management system for heritage permit applications procedures and repository for the paper trail related to heritage management (Smuts, Mlungwana, & Wiltshire, 2016). The platform was developed with the aim of legal compliance and for access by heritage practitioners, but it contains a wealth of information such as site recordings or heritage impact assessments which can be harvested by researchers or members of the public.…”

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Platforms of knowledge: architectural heritage practice and the information age in South Africa

Barker

Swart

2020

Virtual archaeol. rev.

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The intellectual basis for preservation and conservation is formed by the study, record and dissemination of the works of humanity. Due to the negative impacts of exponential city growth, through densification and the impact of climate change, more considered design approaches need to be made for the reuse and adaptation of buildings in historical contexts. The fast pace of project design, and implementation, in the 21st century, has fostered the need for directly accessible architectural heritage knowledge. Therefore, architectural heritage practice demands access to curated information to ensure considered, and appropriate, design responses. This is important, not only for heritage and other related practitioners, but also for researchers and students. The advent of the Information Age initiated new methodologies for archiving knowledge. These developments provided architectural heritage practice with extended platforms of knowledge, either born-digital or founded on analogue principles. But what are these digital architectural heritage knowledge platforms in South Africa? Where are they located and how is information curated? How accessible is the information and how useful is it for heritage assessment practitioners? This article will describe the development of analogue architectural platforms and their development into digital formats. Thereafter, the nature of architectural heritage practice in South Africa will be defined through an assessment of legislation and professional practice. Then the types of information needed for architectural heritage practice to be effective will be explained. A selection of currently available architecturally related heritage platforms (with a digital bias) will be located and described, followed by a critique of their effectiveness. A number of case studies will then be highlighted to determine the effectiveness of the work of heritage assessment practitioners. The article will conclude by suggesting ways of adding value to current, and future, digital information platforms to cater to the pressing needs of architectural heritage practice in South Africa.

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“…This is especially evident in comparison to the extensive discussion of inventories in the context of archaeological research (Carman, 2015). Literature about inventories at large describes how heritage information systems and data standards evolved in different countries and, in some cases, provide an overview of the main components of the system (Carlisle and Lee, 2016;Smuts, Mlungwana, and Wiltshire, 2016;Van Daele, Meganck, and Mortier, 2015;Palumbo, 2004). However, when Myers (2016:104) discusses the challenges in developing the Arches data management platform for the heritage field, he finds "lack of attention focused on defining the key elements of effective heritage inventory programs".…”

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Classification of Archaeological Sites for Heritage Management Inventory: The Case of the Ancient Synagogues in the Galilee

Alef

2019

ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Abstract. A conservation survey of 66 ancient synagogues in the Galilee, served as a pilot for the development of an inventory for heritage management in the Israel Antiquities Authority. The pilot raised some issues concerning the information categories and their informed use for decisions making about the conservation policy for the sites. These issues formed the basis for ongoing research that examined the significance of the information categories and their interrelationship, from the heritage management perspective. The paper presents some of the results and focuses on the classification of the sites to management types. The classification is based on their excavation status with regards to management status and management activities. From this criterion six types emerged: A) Remains known from surveys (Non-excavated); B) Ongoing excavation, and excavated, which are subdivided into four additional groups: C) Remains cleared for modern development (after salvage excavation), D) Non-Stewarded; E) Partially Stewarded; and F) Stewarded. This classification enables to identify common characteristics and sensitivities for which management policy can be formulated, thus providing a solution to the complexity, and dynamism of the sites variables, conditions, and values. While in other fields and organizational frameworks, the types may vary, the criteria for classification, could be applied in broader contexts as well. The study concludes with the need for applied research on the practical use of inventories for informed heritage management.

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SAHRIS: South Africa’s integrated, web-based heritage management system

Cited by 18 publications

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Identifying The Role of Project Management in Sustainable Refurbishment of Heritage Buildings

Identifying The Role of Project Management in Sustainable Refurbishment of Heritage Buildings

Platforms of knowledge: architectural heritage practice and the information age in South Africa

Classification of Archaeological Sites for Heritage Management Inventory: The Case of the Ancient Synagogues in the Galilee

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