Nick and all,
As a work around to this problem I also have been creating Candidate
Monument Type terms to deal with palaeoenvironmental evidence. I currently
use two "deposit sequence" and "land surface", indexing these with their
chronological information. This seems to work ok, and is searchable etc. I
submitted these candidate terms recently to EH, but not sure whether they
will be accepted into the core thesaurus.
I agree that they should also be recorded as Intervention types, as we are
interested in where such analysis has been carried out as well as where the
deposits occur.
Best wishes
Sarah
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Boldrini [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 20 October 2003 09:43
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Environmental Data
Hello
Hello again
thanks for the Monday AM thoughts. Obviously I am not as bright as the rest
of you, as I should have been clearer. I am recording these things as
Interventions, but wonder how best to index them so when (as I am a HBSMR
user) I search on e.g. Mesolithic in the monuments module, it will pull out
the environmental evidence for situations where the only activity or
monument is a sampling activity which gives some environmental data. e.g.
Selby bypass environmental coring has found evidence that it is likely that
the area sampled had no significant human activity at the formation of the
peat, which was dated to neolithic - Iron age. WHich may well be useful to
anyone looking at those periods. But the coring was not done on any sort of
'site', so am unsure how to record this data in a way which will show up in
the Monuments record, without someone having to rely on my crap memory.
Usually, on a new 'site' IE where an intervention uncovers new data I would
create a new monument, but haven't figured out the best way to index this
for environmental data. The obvious way is to create some candidate Monument
Terms solely for environmental data, I was really after some clues as to
what I might call such Candidate terms to record this. Hope that's slightly
clearer.
best wishes
Nick Boldrini
SMR Computing Officer
Heritage Unit
North Yorkshire County Council
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I'd have thought it would be best to record these as events without linking
them to a monument (unless the core was on a known site) and use the
description for a summary of what was found with a link to the source for
further information.
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Boldrini [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 20 October 2003 08:43
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Environmental Data
Hello Folks
I was wondering how people are dealing with recording Environmental data
using the Monument Thesaurus. For example, we have a few examples of e.g.
Peat cores being taken and giving an idea of the landscape at different
periods, but I haven't yet figured out a good way for recording these as
monuments. My thinking is that they should be monuments so that if someone
searched on e.g. Mesolithic, the landscape type data would show up. I have,
however, not found anything really suitable in the Monument Thesaurus to
record these against. Any ideas on this would be appreciated, even if they
are only your own candidate terms
thanks
best wishes
Nick Boldrini
SMR Computing Officer
Heritage Unit
North Yorkshire County Council
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