That's the idea exactly Kim - I just didn't want to scare folks off :-).
Seriously though, the CRM approach will be influential on the 2nd
edition of MIDAS. In MIDAS terms we need another 'unit of information'
with a controlled vocabulary to match it.
Best wishes
Ed
P.S. Matthew has left the forum (and EH) to join the Centre for Ecology
and Hydrology.
Kim Biddulph wrote...
>
From what I gathered at the archaeology on the web conference at UCL and
the
HBSMR users group in Huntingdon (correct me if I'm wrong Sarah: is
Matthew
Stiff still on the HERforum?) is that MIDAS II will be using the CIDOC
CRM
system, which is a conceptual model for storing data allowing
interoperability of databases. Basically, in terms of this discussion,
this
should allow a value to be given to a date, such as 'built',
'demolished',
'used', 'evidence for' and so on. This would make the dates stored in
SMRs
more meaningful.
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