Catching up some of yesterdays postings I noticed the idea of field names
lengths etc being floated. This more detailed approach was adopted for
Recording Englands Past nearly 10 years ago. This as I remember was felt too
prescriptive and MIDAS adopted the idea of concepts. A good example of this
is Min Date which could have an umber of uses within a heritage database
such as min date of a monument or fieldwork or of a piece of archive. I
think there is a role for this level of prescription for different types of
heritage database, I have been looking at this very issue in relation to HER
applications. To apply this to MIDAS concepts however I feel could limit the
scope of the publication, MIDAS is at present and (I believe in future
should continue to be) a concept based standard from which more detailed
standards can be derived for different types of heritage application. Any
thoughts?
Martin
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Martin Newman
Heritage Information Partnerships Supervisor
National Monuments Record
English Heritage
Phone - 01793 414718
Fax - 01793 414770
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