Hello,
We are not an SMR but a public resource of getting on for 10,000 records
and 6000 photos run entirely by amateurs where anyone can contribute,
and indeed many hundreds of enthusiasts do. We have completely open
access for anyone to post comments and questions.
In our experience 99% of 'the public' take contributions very seriously,
we get the odd screwball publicising their own wacky theories and hardly
one abusive or offensive post I can think of. It is a lot of work to
keep on top of though, currently administered by about 5 of us.
People submit their own photos of prehistoric sites of all sorts (also
notable wells, symbol stones, ancient crosses) . These go through an
approval process to allow our picture editor to filter out the 10th
photo of Wayland's Smithy from the same angle. keep the quality up and
avoid anything offensive
It's worth mentioning that I'm very keen to get work out how we could do
geographic lookups from our pages to refernence entries in the real
county SMR/NMR/any other relevant datasets.
You can see the icons with links to various places on a typical page here:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=174
You may well get people with a grudge against their local council over
planning etc but we have a very positive experience of 'the public' -
they even contribute to keep us running as we run totally without
funding of any sort apart from our little online shop.
Cheers,
Andy.
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