When making a Permit Application to SAHRA for Palaeontological work, please note the following steps: (note: it is better to make your entries in one session and save once the application has been completed, rather than to save in stages)
We have a series of spreadsheet templates for bulk recordings of sites and objects. The objects importer is particularly useful for permit applications for export of many samples as the key fields are far fewer than all the fields on SAHRIS. The templates can be completed by the users but they must be emailed to sahrisadmin@sahra.org.za for importation into SAHRIS.
Objects listed on the List of Types of Objects are protected and their export regulated by permits obtained from SAHRA which are issued under the advice of relevant experts, in terms of Section 32 of the NHRA (Act 25 of 1999).
In determining whether to issue a permit for the export of a cultural heritage object SAHRA must consider:
Whether the object is “outstanding significance by reason of its close association with South African history or culture, its aesthetic qualities, or its value in the study of the arts or sciences” and
Whether the object is “of such a degree of national importance that its loss to South Africa would significantly diminish the national heritage”.
This is a short tutorial covering the process for breaking out the scanned files uploaded to the digital registry into the correct content types on SAHRIS
There are three main case related layers in the Openlayers maps.
SAHRA Reports 2009
Heritages Cases
Heritage Cases GIS
This solution was implemented on 18 November 2012 as users were experiencing frozen uploads of files due to an excessively large query being generated by the GISlayer field.
