nearly everything stays the same in England > seats, policy, numpties. >> with such a crap turnout, no wonder nearly every seat is held by the same support of the same voters as last time...

thats "alright for jack" and 'UK Inc'., as we are really just talking about differnt flavours of Troy anyway.

Personally, I think its a shame Pliad did not do better Wales - also for Greens nationally.

UKIP continue to show increased discontentment with the 'established status quo'

(lid dems...no comment)

The real winners are the SNP - wow! - ...i knew the Scots would not forgive the utter shite that English Red/Blue propaganda machine has spouted

Gnome also expects record turn-out in Scotland >>> and no wonder, as this perhaps the only place where people think they might actually have some democratic voice in how they are governed !

Slangevar!!

I'm currently in my second year of a BA Archaeology at the University of York. My third year dissertation will include developing a method for quantitatively assessing quality in excavation archives, and I hope to complete the research portion of this over the summer. However, due to changes in staff and staff being away on leave, some of the archives I'd hoped to get access to aren't currently available.

So I'm looking for 2-3 small to medium commercial excavation archives to use as case studies, preferably from within the last 5-10 years as my focus is on current practices. The nature or period of the archaeology doesn't matter, all I'm looking for is complete archives to test the methodology.

If you can help, or refer me to a good source, please PM me.

what federation?





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Apparently if you want to make an anonymous complaint to the cIFA you have to go through the Diggers' Forum. This raises a number of questions.

Why can't the cIFA offer the same process, filtering out malicious complaints and putting forward complaints on behalf of anonymous complainants?

What are an individuals legal rights to anonymity if one makes a complaint through the Diggers' Forum?

Why does the recipient of a complaint need to know who the complainant is? And if they do, how come an anonymous complaint is acceptable via the Diggers' Forum but not directly via the IFA? What's the difference?

What is the official status of an anonymous complaint through the Diggers' Forum? Does it have an official status? Or is it just self proclaimed bigger boys who reckon they can sort stuff out behind closed doors that can't be done by the official route?

Oasis have been sending me blogs about a survey they did:http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/blog...6#more-186. I distinctly responded to their survey with the request that they pay me for my copyright but this aspect would appear to have been ignored in their survey. A few years ago I received a load of documents in the post to sign over my copyrights to them which I promptly ignored. At the time they knew that they were most vulnerable to the copyright problem over backlogs which they covered by not letting the contractors upload without validation from Planning authorities.. This elephant in archaeology was also eluded to by The London HER officer in one of the oasis blogs

Quote:One obvious problem with this is copyright, and so we have been working with our legal team to draw up a copyright agreement we can send out to organisations who have deposited reports with us over the years. Now given the number of reports we hold, just over 12,000, this is going to take a long time, so is unlikely to happen very soon

Quote:Yes, providing that the data attached to the report doesn’t replicate the HER – see previous comments. I’m not about to assist in making the HER redundant!”

“Yes. When we originally set up the Worcestershire Online Archaeology Library, we envisaged it as a temporary measure until OASIS could take them. I’d rather there was a single place to go for all data, and that place should be OASIS, not individual county systems.”

Okay, title is tongue-in-cheek. Have I missed discussion on this, or did it pass under the radar?

https://www.stfc.ac.uk/3557.aspx

If "preservation in situ" is to be nearly always preferred (laughs histerically as this nearly NEVER happens), why don`t developers put glass floors in? It has been used as an effective medium in other European countries and-turns out to be cheaper..anyone looked into this?[?]

#NAME?

Well for those of you thinking of setting up as Self Employed. Here is the BAJR Guide created by Marc Berger and BAJR to give you the low-down on the basics.

Register with HMRC, A question of VAT, Insurance, Charges and more. Don't get fooled or get in a mess.

Guide 36
A guide for Self-employed field archaeologists

http://www.bajr.org/BAJRGuides/36.%20Sel...logist.pdf


http://www.bajr.org/BAJRread/BAJRGuides.asp

Hi,

I have not posted on here in several years, but I decided to look at some old projects recently to see if problems I had encountered at the time, were resolved.

Precision Multi-Layer Analysis, this a process in the context of what I was working, makes use of data collected by private individuals .
So the precision element is GPS data which measures X and Y to a few mm and costs less than $100.
Multi-Layer is different sensor data
Analysis, the ability accurately overlay data and compare.

When low cost high precision GPS arrives probably in 2017 there is likely to be a large increase in data collected by private individuals that will be of benefit to Archaeology and other disciplines, and where as in the past there would be accuracy and reliability problems, this data will be different due to the precision of GPS.

So the questions I have are

What value would it be to Archaeology?
How would you collect the data?