The public endangered-heritage dashboard

The endangered-heritage dashboard is the open, public face of the "race against loss". It gathers, on one page, an aggregate overview of every item that curators have flagged as at risk: how many there are, why they are at risk, how urgent the work is, and how far the work of capturing them has progressed. It is read-only and needs no sign-in. Open it at /endangered-heritage.

It sits alongside the public at-risk register (/at-risk, which lists the individual published items still awaiting capture) and the admin capture-priority worklist (/endangered/priority, where curators flag records and advance the capture workflow). The dashboard summarises; the register lists; the worklist acts.

What the dashboard shows

• Big numbers - the total items flagged at risk, how many are still awaiting capture, how many are being captured right now, and how many have already been captured and safeguarded.
• Capture progress - a single bar showing the share of at-risk items already captured, out of those captured plus those still awaiting capture. Items no longer treated as at risk are left out of this calculation.
• Why heritage is at risk - a breakdown by risk category (conflict, climate, material decay, funding or stewardship risk, displacement, a digitisation gap, or another documented risk), as simple bars.
• How urgent the work is - a breakdown by urgency band (critical, high, medium, low).
• Highest-priority items awaiting capture - a short, ranked list of the most urgent published items still to be captured, each linking to its catalogue record, with a link onward to the full /at-risk register.

Open data

The same aggregate is available as machine-readable JSON at /endangered-heritage.json. It is CORS-open public data, so partner sites and dashboards can re-use it. It carries the totals, the capture-progress split, the risk and urgency breakdowns, and the highest-priority items (published records only, each with a record link).

Good to know

• The dashboard is factual and non-alarmist. A flag is a prioritisation aid: it records that an item should be captured sooner rather than later, and the documented reason why. It is not a prediction that an item will be lost, not a statement about any institution's stewardship, and not advice.
• The highest-priority list and the JSON only ever surface published records. Unpublished records can be flagged and worked on internally, but they never appear on the public dashboard.
• Until something has been flagged, the dashboard shows a calm empty-state rather than empty charts. It never reports figures it does not have.
• The order in which to act, and the assessment of risk, are matters for qualified staff to weigh against the evidence in every case.