DAHP'S INVENTORY FORMS GO GLOBAL!
Jun 29, 2011
From Derek Chisholm (Preservation Consultant in Washington and Oregon) - to Allyson Brooks (SHPO): 
As you may know, I am working in China for about a month. After presenting a couple of papers in Beijing, I have joined a group of mostly graduate students for a preservation project in rural Fujian Province. We are working on a preservation plan for Tianzhong village and its historic Tulous. Tulous are rammed earth buildings dating from 100 to 700 years old that were built by the Hakka people. (See low-res photos attached). Today, the team started an inventory of the village's built environment. A 3D model will be developed as well as an analysis of cultural preservation and cultural tourism issues. The team consists of some Masters and PhD students from Sichuan, Xiamen Universities, and the Universities of Venice, Oregon and Washington. I led the team in the inventory work. After letting them develop some drafts methods and procedures, I stepped in and facilitated the final version. We gathered data digitally with Trimble GPS devices which geocodes the location and is married with a range finder for triangulated measurements of the buildings. Can you guess what other data we collected and how? We used the DAHP Field Form! Actually we modified it a little, and obviously won't be submitting the information to you. But here I am in China giving a lecture on how to use your form, how it is the best of all the SHPOs with whom I have worked, and how you are building a digital database that is searchable by researchers and other historians. I thought that you would appreciate knowing.
As you may know, I am working in China for about a month. After presenting a couple of papers in Beijing, I have joined a group of mostly graduate students for a preservation project in rural Fujian Province. We are working on a preservation plan for Tianzhong village and its historic Tulous. Tulous are rammed earth buildings dating from 100 to 700 years old that were built by the Hakka people. (See low-res photos attached). Today, the team started an inventory of the village's built environment. A 3D model will be developed as well as an analysis of cultural preservation and cultural tourism issues. The team consists of some Masters and PhD students from Sichuan, Xiamen Universities, and the Universities of Venice, Oregon and Washington. I led the team in the inventory work. After letting them develop some drafts methods and procedures, I stepped in and facilitated the final version. We gathered data digitally with Trimble GPS devices which geocodes the location and is married with a range finder for triangulated measurements of the buildings. Can you guess what other data we collected and how? We used the DAHP Field Form! Actually we modified it a little, and obviously won't be submitting the information to you. But here I am in China giving a lecture on how to use your form, how it is the best of all the SHPOs with whom I have worked, and how you are building a digital database that is searchable by researchers and other historians. I thought that you would appreciate knowing.
