I have a few comments which I hope will prove useful/provoke discussion:
1. I don't think it would be useful to record details of the last voyage for
an extant ship as this may not prove to be its last voyage. For example the
Discovery was moored on the Thames in London for many years, but was latter
moved.
1.1 Cargo and its possible use in the terrestrial record. At present the
monuments type thesaurus includes terms for manufacturing sites and
warehouses by product. This is possibly sufficient. Would taking this out of
monument type and into a new classification scheme give a greater range of
terms or simply make recording more complex?
1.2 The concept of construction method in the terrestrial record is at
present split between Type and Material. For example terms such timber
framed house appear in Monument Types and and weatherboarding and ashlar in
Materials. Again this would require changes to existing lists and records.
Though there could possibly be a simplification avoiding splitting one
concept over two lists.
1.3 Manner of loss would be appropriate for aircraft but different terms
will be required. In Heritage Data at the NMR we are currently looking into
the desk based recording of historic aircraft crash sites and I am hoping to
circulate a list of such issues to this group for comment shortly.
1.5 Motive power for terrestrial sites is a similar situation to 1.1 cargo.
The monuments type thesaurus includes terms for motive power (e.g. horse
engine, steam engine, watermill). Which can be indexed with the type of site
by purpose e.g. cotton mill, crushing mill. This seems to work well at
present. This would not give the greater range that cargo might as the
number of terms would be far less.
1.7 Components, some of these e.g. guns could already be covered by object
type and recorded as finds.
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Martin Newman
Heritage Data
National Monuments Record
English Heritage
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