Gerry's email to the list (below) raises some issues regarding the
publication of what could be called 'grey literature' (as opposed to the
sort of reports that are likely to appear in Internet Archaeology, if
indeed I read him correctly).
He says that there is resistance within units to publishing their
archaeology reports on the web? What do others perceive those hurdles to
be? And indeed, what are "public and academic views of the data" ? Are
they / should they be different?
Are there any archaeology unit people out there who would like to share
their current publication strategies with the list?
I should say that at the recent IFA conference in Brighton (UK), several
unit archaeologists working in publications, Wessex especially spring to
mind, had very clear thoughts on what their future in-house reports could
look like, and they certainly considered web publishing a very important
aspect to future dissemination.
What do others think?
Judith
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Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 15:26:03 +0100
From: Gerry Mos <[log in to unmask]>
To: IntArch-Interest <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Publishing Site Reports
I have for some time been expecting Units to publish their site reports
on-line.
There seems to be a great resistance to taking this small step forward.
I have been developing a new site, not on-line yet, which tries to take a
public and academic view of the data and present it in such a way to make it
easy to read and cross-reference material within the report.
Does anyone have any reports that they are planning to publish on the web ?
Do any Units have any plans to publish on the web ?
Is there a need for web publishing for reports ?
I would like to gauge the consensus of the idea of publishing on-line.
If there are some positive views then I'll release the first version on the
new web site, with an example report.
Over to you all.
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