Bill Blake Heritage Documentation

Survey practitioner and teacher of digital heritage documentation skills. Specialist in the integration of the observation skills inherent in drawing into the survey of historic structures. Developer of real-time Computer-aided Design (CAD) Survey for ancient monuments and integrated CAD methods for drawing production. Developer of Specifications for Metric Survey in a Heritage context. Experienced in resolving data integration in recording historic structures using CAD as a basis for heritage records starting with 3D photogrammetry in the 1980s and more recently from laser scan data. Active in the ongoing development of standards for 3D heritage documentation through the application of experience in survey, commissioning survey and the teaching of skills in digital documentation. Contributor to the published body of knowledge on applied survey in heritage, including the direct technique aspects of Metric Survey Specification for English Heritage - the current model of survey technology application in heritage. This defines the balance between the three elements of the documentation process: data capture, information selection and communication. Executive Board Member of the joint ICOMOS/ISPRS International Committee for Documentation of Cultural Heritage (CIPA) since 2005.