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What is Preservapedia?

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 website is developed collaboratively by a community of users and any user can add and edit content.

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) preservationplanning, 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.

This article defines museology as the study of museums and howthey have established and developed - not only their collectionbut their mission, position in the community and audience overtime.

The furor over the demolition of Penn Sation is often cited as

catalyst for the architectural preservation movement. This articlefollows that case as well as The Grand Central Station case, themost important on regulatory takings relevant to HistoricPreservation.

This article gives a comprehensive overview of the preservation

treatment of the Lamar Barn located in YellowstoneNational Park in Wyoming. Included are detailed accounts ofidentified problems, treatment selection, and long-termmonitoring.

This article details the archeological excavation of the highlysophisticated Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, located inthe state of Illinois. From 600 1400 AD Cahokia was thelargest urban center north of the great Mesoamerican cities in

Mexico.

This article documents The Historic American EngineeringRecord program that was founded on January 10, 1969. HAERdocuments historic mechanical and engineering artifacts.

CulturalLandscapes

The Getty Campus Heritage Program (CHP) was an effort toassist colleges and universities in the US to manage andpreserve their significant buildings, sites and landscapes. Thisarticle concentrates on the landscape preservation planning for anumber of campuses including UC Berkeley, Mills College,

Cranbrook Academy, Bard College and the University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill.

This is just a sample of potential collaborators who canauthor articles and link to Preservapedia, although thepossibilities are endless.

Categories

Authors

Trades people

PreservationLaw

Museology

Engineering

Archeology

Architecture

Site Managers

ScholarsStewards Students

You

Sample Article Topics Potential Partners

College &Universitiy

PreservationPrograms

Historic

Roadways

National

Trustfor HistoricPreservation

The CulturalLandscapeFoundation

CampusHeritage

Network

National

ParkService

Process for this project

Map of the Internet

Sample Preservapedia Page

Sample template layout (edit and format mode)

reservapedia for Cultural LandscapesAddy Smith-Reiman, Ed FitzGerald, and Debbie Smith

National Center for Preservation Technology and Training