I know what Simon Hull means, but one does not have to read a book from one
end to the other to deal with it in a linear way - even skipping chapters
one is always in one place on a single line. His description of the way he
deals with electronic publication sounds like a 'linear' approach to me. :-)
As to 'much ado about nothing' one has to consider the major issues of, for
example, who is to pay for the additional 'processing' of data and archive
to make it usable in electronic format, problems of availability now and in
the future, not to mention the possibility of archive and data being
'cleaned up' to be consistent and coherent for in electronic publication.
Unfortunately site data does not usually make 100% sense when it comes off
site, and it is in raw archive, in the pencil notes on drawings and the
diagrams drawn at the back of site notebooks that, in my experience, new
insights come to light (cf Barclay & Maxwell 1998 'The Cleaven Dyke and
Littleour: Monuments in the Neolithic of Tayside', Soc of Antiquaries of
Scotland monograph 13, 18-20).
Apart from anything else, who wants to do their research staring into a
flickering screen? I do that all day for the government!
Gordon Barclay
> Simon Hull
> Sent: 27 May 1999 11:58
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