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Dear All In Worcestershire we are thinking about how we want the SMR to look and function in the next few years and I would value your advice. We envisage a series of layers such as "hard SMR" (that is bits of SMR information such as events/activities, chance finds, placenames, airphotos etc etc), consultations (planning and country side stewardship etc), and a series of interpretative layers which might break down both urban and rural landscapes into components to which we can attach research questions etc. These interpretative layers would draw on the extensive urban surveys, the historic landscape characterisation, regional and county research designs as well as site specific information. To start with they will probably be very simplisitic but the intention would be for this to create an ongoing research cycle where research questions derived from fieldwork and county wide surveys could be easily accessed and easily modified. Obviously we are at an early stage but I wondered if anyone was thinking if doing anything remotely like this or better still had done it and could give us some hints. I look forward to hearing from you Victoria Bryant Victoria Bryant Information and Records Officer Worcestershire Archaeological Service Woodbury Hall University College Worcester, WR2 6AJ Tel: 01905 855494 Fax 01905 855035