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 |
AIM |
Archaeological Investigation and Mapping |
ALGAO |
Association of Local Government Archaeological Officers |
BCP |
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council |
CHER |
Church Historic Environment Record |
CIFA |
Chartered Institute for Archaeologists |
DC |
Dorset Council |
EUS |
Extensive Urban Survey |
FISH |
Forum on Information Standards in Heritage |
HBSMR |
Historic Buildings Sites & Monuments Record software package for HER databases |
HELO |
Historic Environment Liaison Officer |
HER |
Historic Environment Record |
HIAS |
Heritage Information Access Strategy |
HLC |
Historic Landscape Characterisation |
IFP |
Informing the Future of the Past: national guidelines for HERs |
MIDAS |
Manual and Data Standard for Monument Inventories |
NMP |
National Mapping Programme |
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. |
PAS |
Portable Antiquities Scheme |
RCZA |
Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment |
SHINE |
Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England |
SMR |
Sites and Monuments Record |
UAD |
Urban Archaeological Database |
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.