The fourth and final part of the proposal is as follows: this is a list of
suggested changes to the overall appendices that relate to all the IFA
Standards documents, including glossary, bibliography and contact addresses.
Looking forward to FISH comments on this and the other sections this week.
"
1) Additions to Appendices
a) Appendix 1 Glossary
"Data Standard
A specification of the content or organisation of recorded information used
to promote retrieval of information, to assist in the specification of
information gathering, and to enable the sharing of information between
projects. Data standards may cover the content of the recorded information,
or the indexing terminology to be used in the records, or both."
b) Appendix 6 Select bibliography
New section headed Data Standards
To include:-
Schmidt, A (ed) (forthcoming) "Archaeological Geophysics: Guide to Good
Practice" AHDS Guides to Good Practice
Eiteljorg, H (ed) (forthcoming) "CAD: Guide to Good Practice" AHDS Guides to
Good Practice
Gillings, M and Wise, A (eds) (1999) "GIS: A Guide to Good Practice", AHDS
Guides to Good Practice
Bewley, R., Donoghue, D., Gaffney, V., van Leusen, M., and Wise, A., (eds)
(1999) "Archiving Aerial Photography and Remote Sensing Data: A Guide to
Good Practice" AHDS Guides to Good Practice
Richards, J., and Robinson, D., (eds) (2000) "Digital Archives from
Excavation and Fieldwork: Guide to Good Practice (2nd Edition)" AHDS Guides
to Good Practice
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (1998) "MIDAS A
Manual and Data Standard for Monument Inventories" (available from English
Heritage publications, or online via www.english-heritage.org.uk)
Forum on Information Standards in Heritage (2001) "INSCRIPTION terminology
standards framework" www.mda.org.uk/fish
Fernie, K and Gilman, P (eds) (2000) "Informing the Future of the Past:
Guidelines for SMRs". English Heritage.
Appendix 7 Selected contact addresses
Add:-
Archaeology Data Service, Department of Archaeology, University of York,
King's Manor, York YO1 7EP (01904 433954) [log in to unmask],
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/
English Heritage Data Services Unit
National Monuments Record Centre
Kemble Drive
Swindon
SN2 2GZ
01793-414791
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Edmund Lee
FISH Coordinator
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