Hello
Sylvina,
We
routinely ask contractors to supply reports as doc and pdf files, we also ask
for digital photos. We ask them to supply shapefiles of their events if
possible, but we don’t insist on it as some of the smaller contractors may not
have access to GIS. In practice hardly anyone ever supplies this. For larger
landscape surveys, walkover surveys etc, we ask them for a digital site
gazetteer. I have devised a simple table, sort of AspireLite, to make this
easier, but as yet no one has used this. It is some time since the last large
survey in our area, so waiting for the next one to really insist on
this!
Stephanie
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Behalf Of Sylvina Tilbury
Sent: 13 January 2012
14:48
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Subject: Digital data from
archaeological contractors
Hello
everyone
A Friday afternoon
question for you, as I sit here quietly tearing my hair out. To what extent do
other archaeology services/HERs require archaeological contractors to supply
them with digital data? A couple of years back we revised our reporting
standards for developer-funded work to include an overt requirement not only for
digital copies of reports, but also shapefiles of event and site extents,
digital site gazetteers, digital photos and photographic registers. This allows
us to streamline the process of getting information into the HER – crucial given
our resource limitations - and prevents duplication and double keying of
information.
It seems plain to us
that reporting needs to move with the times and that the supply of digital
information is something that should be standard in this day and age. However
two years on I am still banging my head against a brick wall with many
archaeological contractors who seem to have difficulty understanding even the
basics of GIS or appreciating the benefits of supplying data to us digitally.
I’m now wondering if we really are the only HER in the country with these types
of requirements – surely not?
Thoughts? What do
others do?
Thanks
Sylvina
Sylvina
Tilbury |
HER Officer | Historic Environment Team
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