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Hello folks,
Over the last four years many of you have become familiar with the MIDAS web
site, an online version of the MIDAS standards which was created by the
RCHME Publications section in 1999, at the url www.rchme.gov.uk/midas/ .
Since the merger of the RCHME with English Heritage, resources and skills
have not been available to maintain the site, and, like an unoccupied
historic building, it has started to fall into decay. Links to, for example,
the RCHME publications catalogue are now broken and redundant. Although the
site still exists as of today, the server space that it occupies is no
longer being paid for, and it may disappear from the net in the near future.
A copy has been archived offline.
As a replacement, the English Heritage web site now includes a page with the
url
www.english-heritage.org.uk/midas
from where it is possible to download a copy of the full text of the printed
edition as an Adobe Acrobat .pdf file (approx 288K). A link to the Adobe
site to download the necessary reader is also included. I recommend that
website managers who wish to link to MIDAS use this url from now on.
Alternatively, they may wish to consider linking to the main FISH website at
www.fish-forum.info
in order to put MIDAS into its broader context. Relevant links on the FISH
website have already been updated.
As plans for a revised edition of MIDAS gather pace it will be far easier to
replace the .pdf with a revised version as changes are agreed by FISH, and
hopefully this will make it easier to progress with development of the
standard.
Best wishes
Edmund Lee
Forum Co-ordinator
Forum on Information Standards in Heritage
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