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standards anyone? - P Prentice - 10th August 2011
has anybody got any standards going spare? the archaeology profession is short of them and bajrs cant agree that the ifa's are enforcable, algao cant make them, and the cba dont need them.
standards anyone? - Jack - 10th August 2011
Yep,
I got oodles.
Personal standards, professional standards and standards of hygiene............although the last one is slipping.
standards anyone? - BAJR - 10th August 2011
My favourite Standard...
Dutch Archaeology Quality Standard. Dutch Archaeology Quality Standard. W.J.H. Willems & R.W. Brandt. Den Haag 2004
http://www.sikb.nl/upload/documents/archeo/knauk.pdf
Something we could all agree to and is enforceable as it is very very clear.
standards anyone? - P Prentice - 10th August 2011
BAJR Wrote:My favourite Standard...
Dutch Archaeology Quality Standard. Dutch Archaeology Quality Standard. W.J.H. Willems & R.W. Brandt. Den Haag 2004
http://www.sikb.nl/upload/documents/archeo/knauk.pdf
Something we could all agree to and is enforceable as it is very very clear.
yep - i would back this
standards anyone? - Sith - 10th August 2011
Very interesting, but only one mention of 'Consultants'? :face-stir:
standards anyone? - P Prentice - 10th August 2011
Sith Wrote:Very interesting, but only one mention of 'Consultants'? :face-stir:
one is too many
standards anyone? - GnomeKing - 10th August 2011
Dutch Archaeology Quality Standard. Dutch Archaeology Quality Standard. W.J.H. Willems & R.W. Brandt. Den Haag 2004
http://www.sikb.nl/upload/documents/archeo/knauk.pdf :face-approve:
Need to read more of very detailed document > but i think i would back this also.
Rules are one thing - enforcement is another. Three things seem necessary.
-'Inspectors' with real scope, knowledge, and teeth.
-mechanism for concerns to be raised by team members about the running/direction of their own projects, and timely response from 'Judicial' parties (+ back-up by Inspection, external scrutiny, and 'enforcement orders'/damage to reputation)
-Cultures and Technologies of Peer Review (read each others Reports! Find out how that site you dug X years ago was reported!) + 'forums' where the content of reports can be meaningfully discussed/evaluated, and good/bad practice publicised.
PS: can we get some Dutch views on how well this works/any issues practitioners have with? If possible, a list of other "BAJRs' Favourite Guidelines, for community to pick over?
standards anyone? - Dinosaur - 10th August 2011
For some reason the .pdf refuses to open on this laptop, but from the comments above sounds along the right lines, I'd be up for supporting something like that (although obviously I'd like to see the small print) :face-approve:
standards anyone? - BAJR - 10th August 2011
Another fave guideline... ( and one I was a co-author on - well I am a buildings archaeologist - and this aids curators to know what to ask for and if it is met)
Historic Building Recording. Guidance for Curators and Commercial Archaeological Contractors. By B. Simpson and D. Connolly. East Lothian Council
http://www.eastlothian.gov.uk/downloads/HBRGuidanceFinalDraft2.pdf
standards anyone? - Wax - 12th August 2011
BAJR standards :face-approve: ( seriously I am very much guided by the peer review that goes on on this forum). I believe in the IFA standards but gasp in amazement at their almost total failure to enforce them hence my failure to engage with tha IFA.