THE ”HISTORICAL MONUMENTS DATA BASES” CONFERENCE

The second meeting on cooperation between the National Heritage Board of Poland and the Voivodeship Centres for the Protection of Monuments was held ion 27-30 June 2007 at Krasiczyn Castle. This time, its topic was the use of digital databases in registering historical monuments. The event was attended by representatives of the conservation services and Regional Centres for the Study and Documentation of Historical Monuments, representatives of the National Heritage Board of Poland (KOBiDZ) and specialists in the electronic registration of monuments. The prime themes of the session were problems relating to voivodeship registers and digital registers of historical monuments. The KOBiDZ staff presented the Geographical Information System (GIS) and the possibilities of its application. The participants of the meeting discussed the indispensable range of information, which the database should encompass and the question of rendering information about monuments available. They agreed that there exists an urgent need for creating a central database, accessible on the Internet. The conference programme included a field trip involving wooden architecture of the Sub-Carpathian region