Mike,

For our response I didn’t quantify the unquantifiable, or in English, I left the percentage field blank.

Best wishes

Rob

 

 

 

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
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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).  

 

I hope that this helps to resolve matters

 

Best wishes

 

Nick

     

 

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