Any comments Martin?
Yes this is something DSU are addressing in partnership with FISH. See
Ed's article about the FISH Interoperability Tool Kit in the last issue
of HER News. There will be an update on this at the Forum Meeting (full
programme available shortly) in London on the 7th June.
Ed or Jason want to anything?
Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: Carroll Quinton [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 23 April 2004 11:18
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Wetlands GDMS CD
Hear Hear! I too am getting irritated with national projects that are
claimed to make our lives easier but end up dumping a pretty useless
dataset
on us. Our objectives are to create a single definitive dataset not to
have
several running alongside each other. It should not be beyond the
capabilities of projects now to produce something useful rather than
something cheap. It really makes me laugh when these projects claim to
supply us with validated data, but the time it takes to upload would
have
been enough to do our own validation exercise! It has now got to the
point
where we may refuse to supply data unless the end product is provided in
a
way useful to us.
One example supplied recently illustrates this. On machines here that
are
more than two years old it needed to update the registry files to run,
after
which it rebooted the PC. Of course, all our machines are networked and
reset those files every time they were rebooted, so the thing wouldn't
run!
We got round it, but why supply a dataset that will attempt to alter
core
files on a networked PC in the first place!
Any comments Martin? Sounds like a useful exercise for DSU would be to
research and provide standard guidelines for any project to use for
providing data to individual SMRs. That over 60% of us use the same
software
should help a bit shouldn't it?
Quinton
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Principal Archaeologist (Sites & Monuments Record)
County Archaeology Office
Education, Libraries & Heritage
Cambridgeshire County Council
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Boldrini [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 23 April 2004 10:47
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Wetlands GDMS CD
I have managed to install this, but as the CD I used was one I got from
Dominic Powlesland direct rather than the generic one through the post,
don't know if the postal Disk works.
As for Louisa's point about extracting the data into a Mapinfo layer,
if anyone manages this could they let the list know, as this would be
more useful than a separate piece of software.
AS an aside is anyone else getting fed up with EH supported projects
providing us with data in formats which mean we potentially have many
duplicate data sets to look at, which in DC terms is unrealistic to be
able to do, and in terms of converting into whatever Digital systems you
use mean you now have a digital backlog as well as whatever paper ones
you have. So far we have had the DoB (not totally EH I know), the
Medieval Pottery Production Centres Database, now this Wetlands data,
and OASIS looks like another system which it will be up to us to import.
I am in danger of ranting here, but I think EH needs to start asking
SMR/HER's how they want the data rather than just dumping it on us.
Dear David,
I have managed to get the GDMS CD to work, although I haven't had time
to try and 'interrogate' the data. It only runs on our Windows 2000
computer, and doesn't seem to like our Windows 95/98 machines. What we
wanted to know was whether we can extract data for our county to display
as a layer in MapInfo.
regards,
Louisa
Louisa Matthews
Assistant Archaeologist (SMR)
South Yorkshire Archaeology Service
Development Services, Howden House, 1 Union Street, Sheffield, S1 2SH
Tel.: 0114 273 6428 Fax.: 0114 273 5002
Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.sheffield.gov.uk/in-your-area/planning-and-city-development/u
rban
-design--conservation/archaeology
-----Original Message-----
From: David Evans [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 23 April 2004 09:25
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Wetlands GDMS CD
Has anyone who has received the above been able to run the CD or, if
not, has anyone been able to get through to the technical service
e-mail
address?
Thank You
David Evans
Historic Environment Record Officer
01454 863649
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