Published 7th March 2011
Updated 13th March 2012
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English Heritage

This dataset contains metadata for about 400,000 nationally important places as recorded by English Heritage, the UK Government's statutory adviser on the historic environment.

This dataset covers features located in England and is divided into various types:

  • Listed Buildings – buildings of special architectural or historic interest
  • Scheduled Monuments – nationally important sites and monuments from all periods of history
  • Registered Parks & Gardens – landscapes and naturally occuring features of national importance
  • Historic Battlefields – sites of important battles in English history
  • Protected Wreck Sites – sites of shipwrecks of national importance
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Default APIs

SPARQL Endpoint

Use the SPARQL 1.1 query language to perform structured queries against a dataset. Useful for performing precise queries against a dataset whose structure you understand.

Sample queries

Look up listed buildings with grade listing and geo (lat/long) data, filtered informally down to a list of churches based on a heuristic applied to description element (that is, description starts: "Church of"). Search limited to 10 results.

Query: 
prefix eh: <http://data.kasabi.com/dataset/english-heritage/def/> prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> prefix geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#> prefix osgaz: <http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ontology/50kGazetteer/> select distinct ?desc ?grade ?lat ?long where { ?site a osgaz:NamedPlace , eh:ListedBuilding; eh:listingGrade ?grade ; rdfs:label ?desc; geo:lat ?lat; geo:long ?long. FILTER (regex(?desc, '^Church of')) } LIMIT 10
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11th Aug 2011

select *prefix eh:      <http://data.kasabi.com/dataset/english-heritage/def/> prefix rdfs:    <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> prefix geo:     <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#>

Query: 
prefix eh: <http://data.kasabi.com/dataset/english-heritage/def/> prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> prefix geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#> prefix osgaz: <http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ontology/50kGazetteer/> select * where { ?site a osgaz:NamedPlace , eh:Park; eh:listingGrade ?grade ; rdfs:label ?desc; geo:lat ?lat; geo:long ?long. } LIMIT 15
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18th Jan 2012
Query: 
prefix eh: <http://data.kasabi.com/dataset/english-heritage/def/> prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> prefix geo: <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#> prefix osgaz: <http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ontology/50kGazetteer/> select distinct ?desc ?lat ?long where { ?site a osgaz:NamedPlace, eh:Monument; rdfs:label ?desc; geo:lat ?lat; geo:long ?long. FILTER (regex(?desc, 'Tower')) } LIMIT 10
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Search API

Perform a free-text search against the text fields indexed in a dataset. Useful when you want to quickly query a dataset but don't know, or need to know its structure. There is also a solr search endpoint allowing more complex queries.

Lookup API

Retrieve a description of a single resource. Useful for fetching the key properties and relationships of a single entity.

Reconciliation API

Useful for resolving names, labels or codes against a dataset in Kasabi to find links to more data. This API is compatible with the Google Refine tool.

How to Attribute This Dataset

Kasabi provides a quick and easy way to attribute a dataset from any webpage. We think attribution is an important community norm.

To directly embed an attribution message in a webpage, add a script tag that invokes our Attribution API as follows

<script
     type="text/javascript"
     src="http://api.kasabi.com/dataset/english-heritage/attribution">
</script>

If you need more flexible options, then read the Attribution API documentation

Contributed APIs

List English Heritage sites and their boundaries within a given ordnance survey location.

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Playing with geo location of battlefield sites.

Two formats are provided... grid and map based. Additional params: limit and offset allow you to control paging. Not sure paging makes sense for a map. So it's probably worth increasing limit to 100.

- http://api.kasabi.com/api/historicbattlefieldlocations?apikey=<KEY>&limit=100&output=map
- http://api.kasabi.com/api/historicbattlefieldlocations?apikey=<KEY>&limit=10&offset=10&output=grid

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