Bob - could you clarify what you mean where you say that each number is not
unique. Do you mean that for example an Event and a Monument can have the
*same* number, or is it that the numbers all have the same *format*?
Hopefully it is the latter!
Personally I don't see the problem with just using the system generated
numbers, clarifying the context as necessary. A similar situation applies in
the NewHIS ORACLE database (successor to MONARCH) that supports the NMR.
Edmund Lee
English Heritage
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Sydes [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 24 July 2000 11:54
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: Events and Numbering
Paul & SMR forum
I just use the system generated numbers and happily type away regardless in
the comfort that each number is unique - except that it isn't of course. An
event can have the same number as a monument or a source etc. This is where
I get confused, especially when it comes to numbering up planning reports.
You have to write event BN1603, Report(source)BN2538, Monuments
BN6903,BN6904 etc., in order to make sense of it. Obviously the system
doesn't mind, and I would hate to start yet another local numbering
sequence...does it really matter?
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Gilman AAG Manager ES [ mailto:[log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ]
Sent: 24 July 2000 11:02
To: 'SMR Forum'
Subject: Events and Numbering
In coming to terms with the event-source-monument model in Essex we are
trying to decide how best to reference events and whether this should be by
a unique numbering system or whether a system-generated number, as is done
in the Exegesis system, is sufficient. We would be very interested to hear
how other SMRs are tackling this issue,
Paul Gilman
Heritage Information and Records Manager
Essex County Council
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