Nick commented...
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The format might also include e.g. a downloadable MIDAS compatible standard
database for use with your project, which you can edit to a certain extent
and which comes with an easily formattable manual for you to edit to record
how you have actually used it for your project.
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It would very much change the nature of the project to move from developing
the standard to developing software too, but it would be interesting to see
if there would be a market for something like this. What do folks think?
Going off at a slight tangent, perhaps a neater solution than a downloadable
database would be a web-mounted database which projects and societies could
use to enter / edit / query their records on a centrally held data server,
and if so wished allow approved access by others. The pilot OASIS model for
recording fieldwork online is heading in this direction.
Edmund Lee
English heritage Data Standards Unit
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