A good plan can determine whether a cultural collection survives a disaster or fades into memory. And while nature can be unpredictable, the online disaster-planning portal “dPlan” offers a streamlined, reliable way for institutions to protect their cultural collections. Created through funding by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, dPlan is a free, online tool that allows cultural institutions to complete a customizable disaster plan for their organizations. NEDCC, a nonprofit regional center for the preservation and conservation of paper-based materials, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC), developed the tool.

The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) is creating a new, interactive way of preserving historic landscapes. Slated for launch in October, the PTTGrant-funded “What’s Out There” project will raise awareness about the wide range and diversity of historic landscape design through a collaborative Wikipedia-style website. The site will enable users to directly contribute information, resulting in a comprehensive catalog of significant landscape designs.

Ultimately, the What’s Out There project seeks not only to make design landscapes more visible on a national scale, but also wants to encourage original scholarship aid in future NR and NHL nominations, encourage state and local landscape inventories, generate cultural landscape reports and inspire design professionals.

There is growing pressure on preservation educators, administrators, and professionals to find meaningful ways to promote heritage awareness.

Purpose
artners for Sacred Places will make its Information Clearinghouse database, many of its unique documents, and other resources available to the preservation community through the Internet, thus greatly expanding the number of users served and the amount of data available to them.
Background
Partners for Sacred Places was founded in 1989 as the nation’s only non-profit, non [...]

The purpose of this project was to develop a new Internet-accessible database of information about the landscape design records for projects undertaken by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. and the Olmsted firm.

The pre-fabricated, all-steel Lustron Home was a unique solution to the post- World War II housing crisis.

The basic framework for the Lustron website is completed, the content management system for the website has been completed, and much of the text for the content of the website has been produced.

A beta web version of the NCPTT Summer Institute course, Prospection in Depth, is available online.