Dear Kate
a copy of the original would be appreciated.
cheers
Frances
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fernie, Kate [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 10:46 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re. SMR manual
>
> Dear All,
>
> Tim Grubb and Jan Wills have made some interesting comments about the
> organisation of the SMR manual. Two points:-
>
> If there are any members of SMR Forum who did not see my original
> e-mail
> with the detailed document outline attached, please e-mail me directly
> and I'll send a copy.
>
> The manual talks about 'A model of an integrated service'. What does
> this mean to most of you? How far do you see the SMR information base
> being integrated with planning advice, brief setting, managing
> monuments, public services, supporting research?
>
> Kate Fernie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fernie, Kate [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 29 June 1999 09:54
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> Subject: Re. SMR manual
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GRUBB, Tim [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>
> Dear Kate & SMR Forum
> Here are some comments from Jan Wills and myself at Gloucestershire:
>
> Section 2 could do with re-ordering thus to start with SMR matters and
>
> work outwards:
> 1. A model of an integrated service:
> 2. Staffing and the relation of the SMR to archaeological services
> generally
> 3. Monuments. What do we mean by a monument? - standing monuments,
> buildings, cropmarks, industrial monuments, complexes, findspots and
>
> finds scatters, documentary references, etc. Protection status. What
> do
> we need to know to identify a monument (core data: name, type, date,
>
> location, how known). References to additional information. Why do
> we
>
> need to know - development control decisions, research, public
> understanding, etc. Need to mention the historic environment
> 4. Information Sources. Collections held by the SMR - library, maps,
>
> plans, files, photographs, card indexes. External sources - local
> museums (finds), county record office, national organisations etc. A
>
> collecting policy for the SMR. Summary of the storage requirements
> of:
>
> books, maps, photographs, digital archive. Why do we need to refer
> back
>
> to the original sources and data for a record - validation,
> re-interpretation, additional information etc. Reference to museums,
>
> record offices etc.
> 5. Planning & Development Control. Consultations to the SMR.
> Checking
>
> the SMR map base. Setting of briefs. Reference to be made to
> standard
>
> formats for data and archive to be deposited.
> 6. Managing monuments in the landscape? What is involved - management
>
> agreements, agricultural regimes, monitoring damage, undertaking
> repairs,
> public presentation. Who does it? National Trust, National Parks,
> some
>
> SMRs.
> 7. Fieldwork. Who is involved - contractors, government agencies,
> local
>
> societies, museums etc. Summary of main techniques. What results -
>
> reports, data, site archive, finds? Why we need to know - negative
> evidence, detection by alternative techniques, level of investigation,
>
> etc. (reference to ADS Excavation and Fieldwork guide)
>
> In Section 3 the 'why ALGAO gathers planning statistics' and 'Monument
>
> management' ections seem out of place.
> We felt that Section 6 should be located above Section 5 Access To the
>
> HER.
> Also, in Section 6 there should be some mention of members of the
> public
>
> and local societies as sources of information - in Glos we have a
> 'cut-down' SMR paper form that local societies can use to record
> information and it is very useful.
>
> Generally, at the moment, there seems to be some mixing of
> SMR-specific
>
> matters - which must be the main core of the socument - and general
> archaeology service themes. We feel that the SMR basics should come
> first, then other archaeological services such as planning advice and
>
> management and then the outside world.
>
> I hope these comments are useful.
> Yours
> Tim Grubb - SMR Officer - Gloucestershire County Council.
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