Hi , sorry I was on leave yesterday and just caught up with the discussion.
I just want to throw in an alternative view point. What we all want is historic environment data made available to the public. So, why can't this be from a single access point, but contributed to regionally? I am thinking something similar to the PAS (portable antiquity scheme) model. One database accessible online. Each HER has a login and contributes/updates records for their defined area. EH/HE also has a login and can contribute the national projects/internal projects. The data can be backed up by EH/HE.
This then eliminates the variablilty in recording styles, makes all HER data available online and allows EH/HE to continue to contribute their research.
It would involve HER & NRHE data being reconciled with a single new database system.
Obviously, this still means there is the reconciliation issue...........
Views are my own,
Sharon
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