James Douet is a free-lance industrial archaeologist based in Barcelona, Spain. He focuses on documenting and evaluating industrial sites, conservation programmes, interpretative projects, narratives and content for exhibitions, teaching. He has coordinated different international projects and has been editor of the TICCIH Bulletin, newsletter of The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage, since 1996. In 2003, James drafted TICCIH’s charter for industrial conservation, adopted that year and recognised by ICOMOS as the Nizhny Tagil Charter. Invenscan is a service which puts historic industrial sites in their international context by searching national on-line databases for comparable places. This is especially useful to determine historical significance to back up funding applications and listing. Projects include