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Your Name:  

Representative 

Community Group Name  

Know Your Place Bristol  

Focus of Community Group  

Know Your Place is a website that allows you to explore your neighbourhood through historic maps, images and linked information. 

Know Your Place allows: 

  • wider access to Bristol's historic maps 

  • you to share your own information and images about Bristol. 

Type of Records held  

Digital web map resource and additional digital content including PDF and image files. 

Size of collections in GB  

Unknown at present 

How did you get involved with your community group?  

Not sure our activities count as a group for your criteria. Know Your Place is a local authority digital resource that aims to collect digital heritage content from communities. It started in 2011. 

The Know your place website was created by the City Design Group, with funding from English Heritage. This was in partnership with: 

  • Geographic Information Services (GIS) 

  • Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives 

  • Local volunteers. 

How do you collect material for your collections?  

All material is collected via the web map resource through the public contribution function. Images, audio, pdfs, films can be uploaded. 

Where we closely work with targeted groups we will sometimes assist with digitisation of physical archives. 

What processes are in place to manage and process your collections?  

Know Your Place uses a spatial database to manage the data. Verification etc is all run in ArcGIS desktop software. The main challenge has been storing media within the database particularly where multiple images etc relate to a single spatial reference. This is in the process of being refined and updated. 

How do you preserve your collections?  

Close working relationships with local archives particularly Bristol Archives is essential for us to ensure that we are co-ordinated. However, as yet Bristol does not have an official digital archive and KYP is not really a digital archive, but an online platform enabling public access to material. We would always recommend that partners consult the local archive collections concerning long term storage or better still the ADS. 


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