JamesEBall: A number of funding proposals have been sent out. Funding will be required for faster content input and future system development.8 years 5 months ago
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JamesEBall: The first suburb to be tackled by the JHF team will be Parktown followed by Westcliff. The Register Team will continue to work on selected parts of the Inner City.8 years 5 months ago
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JamesEBall: We met with Diana Steele (JHF lead) to chat about input strategy. Volunteers will work on one suburb at a time. As soon as all properties have been added a suburb will be labelled safe and this will be communicated to relevant stakeholders.8 years 5 months ago
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JamesEBall: We then met with Dinao from CGIS and will be testing a simple process to get key fields onto the GIS8 years 5 months ago
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JamesEBall: ...flagging heritage information at the beginning of the planning process. It was agreed that CGIS and the Register team should meet to discuss getting key heritage fields onto the City's GIS8 years 5 months ago
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JamesEBall: Anne Steffny was the catalyst for a meeting that happened between top officials from COJ Planning, Building Control, Corridors of Freedom heritage consultants and Register Team. The meeting went very well. Everyone agreed on the NB of the concept of...8 years 5 months ago
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JamesEBall: It has been a very busy November for The Heritage Register. On the technical front we had a very successful meeting with a tech company that will be handling security and maintenance on a monthly basis as well as future development needs.8 years 5 months ago
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JamesEBall: We have set up a meeting with a technology company to look at management scenarios for The Register as the scope of work grows.8 years 7 months ago
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JamesEBall: The JHF has asked if it is possible to use the Register infrastucture to help digitise its archive. Discussions are taking place.8 years 7 months ago
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JamesEBall: Yesterday evening we spent a couple of hours training the Corridors of Freedom project team. Plenty of excitement and enthusiasm!8 years 8 months ago
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JamesEBall: Anne Steffny met Yondela Silimela (executive Director Planning COJ) a week ago. The Register came up in conversation and it looks like a meeting will be organised.8 years 8 months ago
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JamesEBall: Proposal has been sent to the RID.8 years 8 months ago
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JamesEBall: David Forrest from the JHF indicated that there has been considerable interest in the Register following the AGM presentation. It will be important to have conversations on ways to harness this impressive volunteer power.8 years 9 months ago
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JamesEBall: The meeting with the consultants working on the Corridors of Freedom Project went well. There may be a need for some extra funding to realise the vision. Overall all parties are excited about the huge possibilities.8 years 9 months ago
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JamesEBall: We will be meeting with the Corridors of Freedom team next Wednesday. We will discuss making listings 'Register Ready'8 years 9 months ago
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JamesEBall: We presented to the RID board last Thursday and will put together options for consideration.8 years 9 months ago
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JamesEBall: Representatives of the Retail Improvement District (RID) in the Johannesburg CBD have expressed interest in conducting a heritage survey with the results made accessible via the Heritage Register.8 years 9 months ago
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JamesEBall: The Heritage Register team has been approached by consultants working on various aspects of the Corridors of Freedom. It would be great to align the work they do with the Register!8 years 9 months ago
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JamesEBall: The presentation at the JHF AGM went incredibly well. There appeared to be plenty of excitement about the project. A number of volunteers came forward to assist which is wonderful!8 years 9 months ago
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JamesEBall: The first listings from the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation are coming through. Great to see the process working!8 years 10 months ago
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JamesEBall: Anne Steffny has set up a meeting with ABSA to discuss a number of important inner city issues. The Heritage Register is on the Agenda.8 years 10 months ago
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JamesEBall: The JHF has invited me to present on the Register at its AGM. Looking forward to it.8 years 10 months ago
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JamesEBall: The volunteers will start working on spreadsheets for input. We have put in a draft quality management process in place.8 years 10 months ago
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JamesEBall: Awesome training session with volunteers from the JHF today. Thank you to Mpho, Elodie, Diana and Brett.8 years 10 months ago
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JamesEBall: The following will be covered during the first training session: 1) Tour of the Register 2) Overview of the two ways to input data (spreadsheets & real-time) 3) Detailed look at the format of the spreadsheets 4) Detailed look at real-time input.8 years 10 months ago
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JamesEBall: The first volunteer training session has been booked for 9 July 2015.8 years 10 months ago
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JamesEBall: The JHF has approved the changes / additions. The changes were as follows: 1) the addition of a GISKEY field, 2) an additional volunteer rating field and 3) the addition of a blue plaque field8 years 11 months ago
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JamesEBall: A team from the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation will be booking a training session so volunteers can learn how to prepare data for input into the Register.8 years 11 months ago
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JamesEBall: Final tweaks are being made following a feedback meeting with stakeholders held in late May. As soon as changes have been approved the pilot project will be complete.8 years 11 months ago
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