Dear All,
Again, this is an argument for a data mangement system, not total collection.
Cheers, Neil
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Diana Briscoe has given a classic example of how ideas of what needs to be kept can change over a relatively short period.
I do understand the problems of simply finding time to put papers into storage in an organised fashion. I had responsibility of looking after a regional part of a national organisation's files and archives for several years (and that was just part of my job). It was that experience that convinced me that records need to be available in a more readily accessible form.
Re Neil Campling's comment: "all this talk of keeping every last bit of information (material, written, digital, etc) about interventions is pie in the sky. There isn't the time or the money in all the world to store, manage, and analyse the terabytes of info now being collected..."
The storage capacity of computers is still constantly expanding; the ability of computers to cope with large databases increases. Research into methods of how to store and retrieve information effectively and efficiently continue. The results of such research will, hopefully, make it easier for archaeologists to find quickly very specific and relevant information.
Janet Davis
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