Morning all,
Just to chip in with a couple of comments here:-
First of all, I take Neils original point that the IFA standards are
procedural standards, not the place for data standards. What I feel is
missing from the standards is references to standards. I don't think we
could or should put the actual data standard into the IFA procedural
standard.
Secondly, the use / recommendation of a particular propietary format for the
data is not really what I'm suggesting. I agree that .pdf is a very good
format for document storage and exchange, however, what is needed from us as
a community is a recommendation of what data should be recorded to describe
that document (or database or image file etc), so that it can be retrieved
and correctly attributed in future. This applies equally to a 'one-line'
report to say that nothing was found during a watching brief as it does to a
full scale digital excavation archive.
Ed
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