{"id":307,"date":"2025-03-22T15:03:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T15:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/demo\/?p=307"},"modified":"2025-12-25T20:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:47:11","slug":"field-names-project-recording-options-for-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/fieldnames\/2025\/03\/field-names-project-recording-options-for-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Names Project: Recording options for discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>1. Posting on the <u>existing<\/u> website of each farms field names as they are recorded<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initial plan was for a \u2018two page\u2019 report on each farm, map, names and name analysis, to be produced and posted on the website. Sample attached that is a Word doc with JPEG embedded. Some researchers are using Excel. We can standardise this to minimise the work involved in posting on website. A new website section was imagined, divided into parishes and then farm reports files in alphabetical order, much like a paper system.&nbsp;&nbsp; Aim was to both make information available and show project progress. Viewer rights to print or download as exists on the existing website were imaged. TBC. We may seek a future linguistic analysis partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. Creation of an interactive, multi-layer mapping &amp; record system<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having looked at the Borgue and Meath fieldnames websites and investigated some East Lothian farms using NLS Maps and other websites I find the most useful to be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>OS map layers with field boundaries, usually 6 inch to mile or 1:25000 The issue here is that the modern maps are in copyright &amp; ideally we would use a modern map to record modern names.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A satellite image (ERSI) and the ability to vary opacity between two overlaid images<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Google Streetview to check on things from ground level, as names are often derived from visible topographic features<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The HER (aka sites and monuments) record via a map on the JGC website<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The only PastMap layer that I found useful for this project is the HER.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2.1 What to use in the project<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a digital map showing modern field boundaries possibilities are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>OS leisure layer at \u2018effectively no charge\u2019 &#8211; Chris Fleet (NLS) Needs TBC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open Street map \u2013 Philip<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Satellite view: ESRI or Google<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HER: this must be available somewhere for free; several sites are using it as a layer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2.2 Other possible layers:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Understanding the \u2018lay of the land\u2019 is useful. A layer that does that would be interesting<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If there were several other layers showing filed boundaries at different times (lots of OS Maps) overlaying one on another would show boundary changes over time. It would be a useful tool for the present researchers as well as future site viewers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u2018our\u2019 fieldnames layer. Display the field name, older names where known &amp; the farm location and name<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Various other suggestions of Chris\u2019s in an email have been provided to Philip<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2.3 Other associated items:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Is there a drawing tool we could use to insert a field boundary line on the map layer?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chris &amp; Stephanie advocated collecting grid refs, doing so as sample document attached<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2.4 Information displayed when a field is clicked on<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pop-up box. Other alternatives? Need to decide what is in the box. Present and past names. Derivation of the name. What else?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2.5 Front page options<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously, a button for the map but also buttons for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>common field names in ranking order -any database issue?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Interesting discoveries \u2013 maybe to display a particularly fine old map or an old photo of a farm or a page of some farm record or other find.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Public comment page. Stephanie suggested this. Borgue has one &amp; people post in little snippets of fieldname information that they have.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3. Technical &amp; other issues<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Need Philip\u2019s guidance here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Database basics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inputting to DB- need training for, say, 3 people. How long &amp; costs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Size of task. Approx. 400 farms in EL with 10 or so fields each, so say 4000\/5000 names needing their data stored.&nbsp; Any capacity issues\/costs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best guess at project duration, with the present team we might produce 6-8 farms data per month, conservatively for 10 months a year (Christmas and summer holiday periods being excluded). So about 80 farms per year for 5 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pilot project. Philip\u2019s suggestion. Have information on two farms at Dirleton that provide different challenges that could be a very small-scale pilot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cost estimates needed for: training\/pilot\/full scheme and ongoing site maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Could the \u2018free\u2019 modern digital field boundary maps be used as the basis for the initial recording &amp; posting on the website. Is there a copyright issue here? Establish if any \u2018creative commons\u2019 or similar licence exists. Where to check\/who to ask?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DJS March 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Posting on the existing website of each farms field names as they are recorded The initial plan was for a \u2018two page\u2019 report on each farm, map, names and name analysis, to be produced and posted on the website. Sample attached that is a Word doc with JPEG embedded. 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