These web pages are an
experimental presentation of the datatabase of the conservation management system
(CMS) for Norbury Park (Surrey County Council).
They have been formatted
by the Natural Economy Research Unit from the management plan, 2000-2005 (known
as the 'text plan'), which will be presented as a separate set of interactive
web pages.
The aim is to devise
and test a hypermedia format as a means of communicating information about the
logic, knowledge structure and outcomes of conservation management as a comprehensive
diagramatic system (defined here as the web Site Map).
The basic structure of the
Norbury CMS, as is the case for all CMS's, is a nested hierarchy of information.
The first layer presents the valued 'Features' of the site. Each feature is
described in terms of the 'Objective': 'Rationale': 'Management Option': 'Management
Factors (major issues that limit attainment of the management objective)': and
'Management Prescriptions'. Each Management Prescription contains one or more
coded projects that define the operational resources and the scheduling required
to manage a Factor on the ground. This collection of information is sometimes
called the 'Action Plan'.
Below each feature is another
layer in the information hierarchy that defines the 'Attributes' of the feature.
Attributes are measurable characters of the feature chosen as performance indicators
of the feature's Management Prescription . Each attribute is the focus of a
monitoring project which marshals the resources necessary for its measurement.
The idea of presenting the attributes in this way is to allow the practical
outcomes of the CMS to be seen at a glance.
In this first web draft
of the Norbury Site Plan a full set of this nested information structure is
only included for the Semi-natural Woodland Feature (Feature 2).