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Hello again folks, Matthew commented on integration of SPECTRUM and MIDAS > In general, there will be a need for SMRs to broaden the range of > information that they manage and disseminate, but this will > be fuelled by > internal as well as external drivers as they move towards becoming > fully-fledged Historic Environment Records, with the new audiences and > audience needs that this will inevitably bring. in this context I would welcome comment on another aspect of SPECTRUM that we might be able to 'borrow' - the notion of 'procedures'. SPECTRUM takes as its starting point a range of tasks or procedures that are part oc the everyday work of a museum curator (e.g. documenting a collection, accesioning a new artefacts, undertaking conservation on an artefact). It then defines what information is required to document that procedure. I see from the current consultation on Benchmarks for Best practice (available online at http://www.culture.gov.uk/global/consultations/2003+current+consultations/he r_consultation.htm ) that it is an aspiration for the HER community to move in this directtion. Section 3.1.b under 2nd stage HER performance measures refers to:- " Extended written manual for procedures to cover the range of historic environment information systems with which the Record shares data or has links. ?Adoption of a full procedural standards (e.g. equivalent to SPECTRUM for museums) for which documentation may be developed in next 5 years" The question then is - what are our procedures? It's possible to see some parallels e.g. accessioning of a new dataset (ie backlog), conservation of a monument, development control etc. Should this approach be developed for the 2nd edition? Ed