Scottish Cultural Protected Sites: Historic Designations and Monument Records
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Description
Historic Environment Scotland designations and national monument records, transformed into INSPIRE-compliant geospatial data. The schema includes six specific cultural designation values: Battlefield, Conservation Area, Garden and Designed Landscape, Historic Marine Protected Area, Listed Building, and Scheduled Monument. World Heritage Sites and National Monument Records are included via separate, dedicated schemas.
Use Cases
Mapping and analyzing the distribution of Scheduled Monuments based on the listed designation values.
Assessing spatial relationships between different protected site types, such as Listed Buildings within Conservation Areas.
Integrating World Heritage Site boundaries with other cultural designations for comprehensive heritage management.
Conducting spatial queries to identify protected landscapes like Gardens and Designed Landscapes.
Strengths
Data is INSPIRE compliant, ensuring interoperability with European spatial data infrastructures.
Schema explicitly defines six distinct cultural designation categories, providing clear classification.
Incorporates data from the authoritative source, Historic Environment Scotland.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
Source
Government Digital Service, based on Historic Environment Scotland data.
Collection Method
Likely an official transformation and aggregation of national heritage records.