Glossary
Cultural Heritage Asset
Any physical space or feature in the landscape or seascape that, by its nature (either extant or former), imparts knowledge about the historic environment. This includes built, buried and underwater heritage of all dates and types. All known Tangible Cultural Heritage is a Heritage Asset and is recorded within the HER. For this document, tangible cultural heritage could include:
1) landscapes: cultural landscapes, archaeological sites and landscapes, palaeontological sites, urban landscapes (such as modern heritage districts), sites and areas;
2) buildings and structures: historic buildings, archaeological remains and modern heritage buildings;
3) site elements: context or features within a landscape, building, structure or urbanscape.
Damage mapping
Drawing issue(s)/loss(es) of a cultural heritage asset after assessing its condition.
Historic Environment
All aspects that arise from the interaction between persons and places over time, that provide a testimony of past human activity, whether visual, buried, underwater or in the form of a cultural landscape or site setting.
Intervention mapping
A drawing of actions (to be) conducted affecting (positively or negatively) the condition of a cultural heritage asset.
Metric Survey
A method of providing measured data to get details of the construction and condition of a cultural heritage asset.
Modern Heritage
A structure, building, district, site, area, landscape, whether completed or not, which is the built product of the human creative process prompted by significant developments since the discovery of oil, marking a shift from traditional customs.
Photo Key Plans
Location and direction marked on a plan of the photographs taken for the photographic portfolio.
Guidelines and Standards
The established requirements for the recording, documentation and information management tasks associated with the conservation of the historic environment of Abu Dhabi. The standards outline the required contents of the deliverables as well as how they should be maintained and managed.
Topographic Survey
A method of providing measured data to get details of the features of the terrain and depicting all natural features and elevations of an area.
Vernacular Architecture
Local construction, using traditional materials and resources from the area where the building is located.
Abbreviations
CIMS Carleton Immersive Media Studio
DCT Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi
DGPS Differential Global Positioning System
DEM Digital Elevation Model
HED Historic Environment Department
HEDI Historic Environment Documentation Initiative
GIS Geographic Information System
GNSS Ground Navigation Satellite Systems
RPA Remotely Piloted Aircraft
WGS World Geodetic System