Philip Carlisle (Data Standards Unit, English Heritage) and I (Rebecca Jones, RCAHMS) are organising a session for FISH at the next IFA Conference, to be held on the 25-27 March 2002 at the University of Leicester.
The details of the session are:
Gone FISHing! Why are Information Standards Important?
FISH the Forum on Information Standards in Heritage is a new forum set up by heritage organisations and projects from across the United Kingdom and Ireland. The forum will work to co-ordinate, develop, maintain and promote standards for the recording of heritage information.
Why are information standards important? This session will look at why information standards are useful to all sectors of the profession, and how they can be a valuable research tool for archaeology.
Data collected in the field is inevitably expensive, and sometimes irreplaceable. The session will examine how agreed standards facilitate the re-use of this valuable information resource, and the sharing of data between different communities.
How are standards applied? The development of standard terminologies and thesauri across the UK will be assessed, alongside the approaches to standardisation made by colleagues in Europe.
It is hoped that the session will contain lectures from academics on terminology as well as representatives from throughout the UK discussing common ground in information standards. We also hope to get a representative from Europe to discuss the approaches made towards Information Standards on the continent.
The call for papers was sent out with the most recent mailing from IFA, and the closing date for submission of abstracts is Wednesday 12th December. Please send abstracts of 250-500 words to the IFA central office ([log in to unmask]) and copy them to Phil and I ([log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]).
You can also ring Phil on 01793 414824 or Beccy on 0131 662 1456 x307
Many thanks.
Rebecca Jones
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RCAHMS
(The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland)
John Sinclair House, 16 Bernard Terrace, Edinburgh, EH8 9NX
Tel: 0131 662 1456
Website: www.rcahms.gov.uk
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