hi Nick
we have been indeed been working on this as increasingly are using
contractors who are doing our Historic Landscape Surveys on our properties.
We have had to develop a number of internal guidance notes on such things.
We have developed
a list of National Trust Key fields for the exegesis SMR that are required
entry
A full user manual that goes behound the current exegesis manual
some other misc notes (i could send the contractors pack to you if you want)
also we employed Exegesis to design a read only amalgamation software that
creates read only amalgamated datasets.
most of our contractors we use recieve a full SMR for the duration of the
project which means the data they generate can be automatically seen a key
stages of the project and can be easily downloaded into the main system
after the contract/project is over. This seems to be working well and indeed
the reports we have designed internally allows for much of the NTSMR to be
downlaoded into word documents forming lists and inventories that go into
their reports (saving alot of time).
hmm there are some pit falls that i would be happy to discuss (preferably
off list)
We are now taking this further with begining to develop our digital archives
Specifications for Archives
At the present we are employing someone to begin to digitise (pretty much
all) our archive which includes reports, photos, slides etc
We have recently been drawing (across departments) up a joint standard in
digitising images which is a basic standard that the surveys and data
managers will be using.
Jason A. Siddall
National Trust SMR Officer
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Boldrini [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 11:49 AM
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Subject: Digital data
Apologies for cross posting
Hello Everyone
in case you are bored over Xmas, perhaps you could ponder the following.
At North Yorkshire we are trying to come up with some sort of spec we can
give to contractors etc for how to format digital data to enable it to be
easily imported into the SMR. We are about to switch to HBSMR and are going
to be discussing this with Exegesis, but I was wondering if anyone out there
has come up with something along these lines already? If so would they mind
sending us a copy so we can shamelessly plagarise it?
If no one has done this, can anyone suggest what they would consider to be
useful pointers to how to achieve this? Bearing in mind we would be trying
to persuade contractors (and other project organisers outside the DC world)
to provide data in this format, a trade off may need to be made between
getting all the information importable and no-one doing it as it is too much
work, or getting a core of information in and actually getting people to
provide that.
Things that spring to my mind are the fact that MIDAS suggests some core
information that Monuments and events need to have, this would obviously be
a good place to start. But then an issue is would it be better to get the
project organisers to only supply the events data in an agreed digital
format, and then have the SMRO's interpret out the monuments? Or should we
be asking them to provide that sort of information also?
thanks for any help
Nick Boldrini
SMR Computing Officer
North Yorkshire County Council
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