reservapedia for Cultural Landscapes

Addy Smith-Reiman, Ed FitzGerald, and Debbie Smith National Center for Preservation Technology and Training

What is Preservapedia?
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Preservapedia focuses specifically on technical material related to cultural resource management and its allied fields. Similar in format to the popular platform of Wikipedia, the free, web-based, collaborative encyclopedia project, this web site is developed collaboratively by a community of users and any user can add and edit content.

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Scope of Project
This project focused primarily on developing templates for authors to submit articles to the Cultural Landscape Category. The templates relate to specific treatments for landscape preservation inclusive of (but not limited to) preservation planning, documentation, treatment and maintenance. Authors will have an easier time uploading content with a consistent style and format. This will provide a useful resource for anyone interested in landscape preservation.
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Sample Article Topics

This article gives a comprehensive overview of the preservation treatment of the Lamar Barn located in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. Included are detailed accounts of identified problems, treatment selection, and long-term monitoring.

Process for this project

Potential Partners
This is just a sample of potential collaborators who can author articles and link to Preservapedia, although the possibilities are endless.

Architecture

National Park Service

Archeology

This article details the archeological excavation of the highly sophisticated Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, located in the state of Illinois. From 600 1400 AD Cahokia was the largest urban center north of the great Mesoamerican cities in Mexico. This article documents The Historic American Engineering Record program that was founded on January 10, 1969. HAER documents historic mechanical and engineering artifacts.

National Trust for Historic Preservation

Engineering

Cultural Landscapes

The Getty Campus Heritage Program (CHP) was an effort to assist colleges and universities in the US to manage and preserve their significant buildings, sites and landscapes. This article concentrates on the landscape preservation planning for a number of campuses including UC Berkeley, Mills College, Cranbrook Academy, Bard College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The furor over the demolition of Penn Sation is often cited as catalyst for the architectural preservation movement. This article follows that case as well as The Grand Central Station case, the most important on regulatory takings relevant to Historic Preservation.

Campus Heritage Network

Sample Preservapedia Page

The Cultural Landscape Foundation

Preservation Law

College & Universitiy Preservation Programs

Museology

This article defines museology as the study of museums and how they have established and developed - not only their collection but their mission, position in the community and audience over time.

Sample template layout (edit and format mode)

Historic Roadways