Summary - TST 44
TRANSPORTES, SERVICIOS Y TELECOMUNICACIONES
Methodology and practice for an inventory of railway houses built in Spain (1939-1990)
[Download the complete article in pdf format]
<<< SUMMARY TST 44
[ Abstract ]
Making inventories is the main mandate of the various documents
and recommendations of national and international bodies
concerned with the preservation of cultural heritage. Within
this framework, this paper proposes a methodology and practice
for carrying out an inventory of railway housing built in Spain
during the second half of the 20th century. The chosen topic is
justified by the reasonable availability of sources, which in
many cases have been barely studied, and also by the scarcity of
research of this nature in the Spanish railway historiography as
a whole, as well as by the social relevance of the issue.
The systematic recording of data has the double purpose of
having ordered information on the subject of study, in this
case, housing, and also of facilitating the analysis of this
information to find patterns, singularities and interesting
elements in the general study of the subject, thus helping in an
adequate qualification and assessment of its heritage value. To
this we should add a third objective, to which social
researchers have not always been inclined, which is to have
available information at any times, to facilitate the recovery
of data and to share the results with other researchers so that
they can be improved, rectified and further developed.