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The
Standards in Practice — the example of Greenwich
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View
of the Queen's House and Royal Naval College from Greenwich
Park, London
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The Royal Naval College, the Queen's House, the Royal Observatory,
and the Park at Greenwich constitute one of the most dramatic
architectural and landscape ensembles in Europe, embodying
a history that embraces royal patronage, maritime power, and
scientific advance. The site includes evidence of settlement
from the Roman period, a remarkable surviving group of Anglo-Saxon
burial mounds, the remains of a 16th-century palace, a group
of classical buildings designed by some of the greatest architects
of the 17th and 18th centuries — Inigo Jones, Christopher
Wren, and Nicholas Hawksmoor — and in the National Maritime
Museum a remarkable collection that includes paintings, furniture,
models, and historic timepieces. The principal buildings and
landscape, and the nearby town centre, form part of the "Maritime
Greenwich World Heritage Site", designated in December
1997. Moreover, in a publication about international standards
it is fitting to use a location that gave its name to one
of the earliest international agreements on the standardisation
of practice — Greenwich Mean Time, established at the
International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C., in
1884.
For the purpose of illustrating the use of the core data standards,
attention has been concentrated on the Royal Park, the multi-phase
Queen's House to the north, and objects from the collections
of the Museum that relate to the history of the site and to
Greenwich's place in the history of the search for a method
of establishing longitude at sea. Each of these sites and
objects can be viewed and documented in isolation; equally,
it is possible to show how they might be linked in a documentation
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