Dorset Historic Environment Record Forward Plan 2020-2025
Abbreviations
Abbreviations used in the Dorset Historic Environment Record Forward Plan 2021-2025
Abbreviations used in the Dorset Historic Environment Record Forward Plan 2021-25
| Abbreviation | Explanation |
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| AIM |
Archaeological Investigation and Mapping |
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| ALGAO |
Association of Local Government Archaeological Officers |
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| BCP |
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council |
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| CHER |
Church Historic Environment Record |
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| CIFA |
Chartered Institute for Archaeologists |
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| DC |
Dorset Council |
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| EUS |
Extensive Urban Survey |
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| FISH |
Forum on Information Standards in Heritage |
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| HBSMR |
Historic Buildings Sites & Monuments Record software package for HER databases |
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| HELO |
Historic Environment Liaison Officer |
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| HER |
Historic Environment Record |
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| HIAS |
Heritage Information Access Strategy |
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| HLC |
Historic Landscape Characterisation |
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| IFP |
Informing the Future of the Past: national guidelines for HERs |
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| MIDAS |
Manual and Data Standard for Monument Inventories |
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| NMP |
National Mapping Programme |
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| OASIS |
Online reporting of information about archaeological investigations to HERs and national bodies such as Historic England. Being replaced by HERALD which includes information on archaeological archives. |
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| PAS |
Portable Antiquities Scheme |
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| RCZA |
Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment |
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| SHINE |
Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England |
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| SMR |
Sites and Monuments Record |
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| UAD |
Urban Archaeological Database |
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Historic Environment Record and HER are used throughout this document to refer variously to the Historic Environment Record database and supplementary material such as aerial photographs, and to the people – Dorset Council officers, occasional contractors and volunteers – who work with the record.