The historic environment—comprising a palimpsest of landscapes, buildings and objects—carries meaning and plays a crucial role in giving people a sense of place, identity and belonging. It represents a repository of ever-accumulating collective and individually held values—shared perceptions, experiences, life histories, beliefs and traditions. These social or private values are mostly ascribed by people to familiar places within this environment based on the ontological security which this everyday heritage provides. However, these values are notoriously hard to capture and categorize. This makes it difficult to incorporate them into heritage-management strategies, which typically rely on objective, fact-based datasets. In this paper, we present a new methodology to capture those elusive values, by combining Topic Modelling with the principles of Grounded Theory. Results show that our novel approach is viable and replicable and that these important values can be effectively and meaningfully integrated, thus creating more inclusive approaches to heritage management than exist currently.

历史环境——包括景观、建筑和物体的重写——具有意义，在赋予人们地方感、身份感和归属感方面发挥着至关重要的作用。它代表着不断积累的集体和个人价值观的宝库——共同的看法、经验、生活史、信仰和传统。这些社会或私人价值大多被人们基于这种日常遗产提供的本体论安全性归因于该环境中熟悉的地方。然而，众所周知，这些值很难捕捉和分类。这使得将它们纳入遗产管理战略变得困难，而遗产管理战略通常依赖于客观的、基于事实的数据集。在本文中，我们提出了一种新的方法来捕获这些难以捉摸的价值，将主题建模与扎根理论的原则相结合。结果表明，我们的新颖方法是可行和可复制的，并且这些重要的价值观可以有效且有意义地整合，从而创造出比目前更具包容性的遗产管理方法。