Posts about the Flanders Heritage Inventory.
View all tagsWe don't always think about it, but web pages move too. Websites, databases and other information systems aren't static: they get built at a particular point in time, with particular expectations, on particular technology. In an ideal world a URL never changes — Cool URIs don't change, as the saying goes. In practice, something always changes: cool URIs don't change, real ones do. Deal with it. (For this post, feel free to read URI and URL as synonyms.)
On May 13 we launched a brand new Flanders Heritage Inventory, with five datasets: heritage objects, designation objects, people, themes and events. Heritage objects and designation objects already covered the core of the inventory; this time we look at the three supporting datasets.
Since May 13, a brand new inventory has been live at https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be. It looks very different, but anyone who knew the previous version will recognise a lot: the data is still the same heritage Flanders is rich in. Behind the scenes, though, plenty changed — the underlying technology was rewritten from scratch. Today we look back at ten years of technological evolution behind the inventory.
Since May 13, a brand new inventory has been live at https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be. Last time (From searching to finding on the new inventory) we covered some general principles; today we dig into full-text search. We use heritage objects as our example, but our other modules support the same syntax.
On May 13 we launched a brand new Flanders Heritage Inventory. Anyone who has used it will have noticed five datasets: heritage objects (erfgoedobjecten), designation objects (aanduidingsobjecten), people, themes and events. Heritage and designation objects form the core of the inventory database; the other three datasets are covered in a later post.
Since May 13, a brand new inventory has been live at https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be. As with any overhaul, it takes some getting used to, and that's especially true for the search options: some stayed the same, others changed slightly or significantly. To ease that transition we're using this blog to walk through the main search capabilities. Today we start with some general principles; later posts dig into specific parts.