Mike, For our response I didn't quantify the unquantifiable, or in English, I left the percentage field blank. Best wishes Rob Rob Edwards Historic Environment Records Officer Archaeology Planning Advisory Service + Cheshire Shared Services, Backford Hall, Backford, Chester Cheshire. CH1 6PZ. ( 01244 973667 4 01244 972921 * [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> From: Issues related to Historic Environment Records [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mike Shaw Sent: 10 August 2009 14:54 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Content and Computing Survey 2009: Section 5 Nick, Many of the questions in Section 2 on Records look unanswerable to me. Whereas in the 2005 survey you asked for a rough quantification, the 2009 survey asks for a percentage. How is it possible to give a percentage of the number of place names, boundaries, industrial sites, palaeoenvironmental sites or even historic buildings in a particular area? Given unlimited resources it would be of value to put say every pre-1950 building on the HER but I have no idea how many of these there are in my area, nor can I assess how many place names there are - how large is somewhere before it becomes a place? And as for boundaries what does this mean - every wall, hedgerow etc in the whole of Wolverhampton or wherever. Whereas in the 2005 survey I was able to answer Many, Few etc I have no idea of percentages. What ahve others done? Regards, Mike ________________________________ From: Issues related to Historic Environment Records [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of DAVIS, Nick Sent: 03 August 2009 16:32 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Content and Computing Survey 2009: Section 5 Dear All There have been some enquiries relating to section 5 of the recently distributed Content and Computing Survey 2009 which deals with Archive Materials. Respondents are querying how the percentage column used here is to be used and what this is a percentage of. For the sake of consistency could those presently working on the form please employ the following criterion: Try to express as a percentage the proportion of those archives/photos etc which are indexed within your record for which the actual archive (in hard or digital copy) is held by the HER (only a very approximate figure is required). 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