Dear Trevor Reynolds,
> . . . As a first step the Working Group would like to gather examples of
> existing guidelines or standards. . . .
I assume you are aware of the AHDS/ADS standards. There are also Standards
posted for the Archaeological Data Archive Project at
http://www.csanet.org/archive/#document, which, in turn, leads to
http://www.csanet.org/archive/archivedoc.html. I hope you find these
documents to be of help. They are less specific than the AHDS/ADS documents,
not accidentally, because we have generally preferred to try to keep these
kinds of requirements simpler to read (if not to comply with) so that
readers are not intimidated by them. We are also persuaded that
documentation is most often a matter of determining what is needed for a
specific set of data, not an a priori determination.
Cheers,
Nick Eiteljorg
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