ABSTRACT
The Nizhny Tagil Charter is very clear about the fundamental role of recording the industrial heritage as vital means of assessing its value and context, educating generations of people about its importance, and prioritising work on its conservation. Today there is large armoury of techniques and technologies that can help record industrial heritage. This chapter discusses the evolution of industrial heritage recording in recent decades, and then focuses on new priorities and opportunities. Since the 1990s, industrial survey and associated documentary research have demonstrated the value of thematic studies and access to associated industrial archives and records. In the UK, this has manifested itself in a number of ways, not least in the recording of the textile industries in Yorkshire and Lancashire. The level of detail captured in drawings and documentation could not have been achieved by conventional recording techniques, and would not normally have been possible as it was rare in the past for working sites to be recorded.
