The dataset covers cultural environments protected according to the Cultural heritage act § 20, areas included in UNESCO’s World Heritage list, and urban cultural environments of national importance. The cultural environments that are protected according to the Cultural heritage act § 20 have the same protection as any protected cultural heritage site or monument. Candidates to the UNESCO World Heritage list are proposed by the Directorate for Cultural Heritage based on cultural environments that are considered to have international cultural heritage value. Urban cultural environments of national importance include towns and villages in Norway that contain cultural environments of national cultural heritage value. These cultural environments are not subject to formal protection, but it cannot be ruled out that some of these environments, or objects within them, should in the future become protected according to the Cultural heritage act.

The dataset covers the Directorate for Cultural Heritage's listed wooden buildings environments. These are cultural historical wooden buildings environments subject to special fire protection considerations. These environments are especially vulnerable to fires. The largest areas of continuous, historical wooden buildings environments are found in cities, such as central Halden, historical Stavanger, and large parts of Trondheim. Even so, wooden buildings environments are also found on larger farmyards, such as Havråtunet in Hordaland, and in historical fishing communities, such as Sør-Gjæslingan in Nord-Trøndelag.

Web based read only access point for the dissemination of cultural heritage data to the general public.

The dataset covers areas where there is a particularily great risk of fire contagion as defined by the Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection in cooperation with the Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Listed wooden buildings environments where there is a risk that fire in one building spreads to the other buildings.

SEFRAK is a national register of older building and other cultural heritage objects in Norway. SEFRAK is an acronym for Secretariat for the registration of immovable cultural heritage monuments, which was the name of the institution that started working on the register. Today the responsibility for the registration and maintenance of the data lies with the Directorate for Cultural Heritage. All buildings built before 1900 are supposed to be registered, except ruins. In Finnmark the limit for the latest building date of a building was moved to 1945. Houses in the SEFRAK registry are not considered listed, and there are no specific restrictions on the buildings. The SEFRAK registry does not affect a buildings listing status.

Database for the management of all listed cultural heritage and cultural environments in Norway, as well as other types of cultural heritage types.

Buildings and churches that are protected according to Norwegian law, either automatically, permanently or temporary by individual order, or by regulation. Buildings can be protected through several paragraphs in the Cultural heritage act. Buildings that are protected through individual order (§ 15), and government owned buildings that are protected through regulation (§ 22a). Buildings that are older than 1537 are automatically protected, buildings from between 1537 and 1649 can be declared protected, and Sami buildings older than 100 years are also automatically protected (§ 4).

Buildings (mainly built before 1900) that are registered as cultural heritage in the so called SEFRAK registry. They are however not listed according to the Cultural heritage act. In some cases (i.e. for Finnmark) the building date is set to younger than 1900.

A RESTful API with access point for machine access.

The dataset covers cultural environments protected according to the Cultural heritage act § 20, areas included in UNESCO’s World Heritage list, and urban cultural environments of national importance. The cultural environments that are protected according to the Cultural heritage act § 20 have the same protection as any protected cultural heritage site or monument. Candidates to the UNESCO World Heritage list are proposed by the Directorate for Cultural Heritage based on cultural environments that are considered to have international cultural heritage value. Urban cultural environments of national importance include towns and villages in Norway that contain cultural environments of national cultural heritage value. These cultural environments are not subject to formal protection, but it cannot be ruled out that some of these environments, or objects within them, should in the future become protected according to the Cultural heritage act.