19th June 2009, 10:47 AM
Quote:quote:I understand why OASIS exists.. it is also a very complex system.. I would like to see what contractors would do to 'make it better'
I don?t understand why oasis exists anymore than any other web hosting facility. That it says what post code or any other qualification less so. As a capitalist pig I always have this nagging feeling that what I produce has to be a product for which there is a demand even if eventually it relies on the long tail (look it up). To that end (boom boom) what would convince me is that I would get some form of payment for putting my sweat and blood on it. At the moment its main attraction to be on it is that it can be imagined as a preferred contractors list. That it has a county based search facility might have some effect on the big cross county eia projects and who gets involved.
I would reiterate Talisiens earlier observation that Oasis merely intends to provide an online index that facilitates the flow of information to primarily, some really dodgy scheme called, the nmr and then local smr if it exists. Oasis blindly skirts around the issue that as far as we (I) am concerned I have to get a copy, electronic or hard into the hands of the authorising authority and for them to say well done pet monkey so that I can go and get paid and not have to worry that I have to spend anther poorly paid day or week on it.
Where Oasis NMR gets interesting is that at the mo around my way there appears to be about twenty people who sit next to a cave in which my hard bound copies go. A lot of their existence seems to rely on this cave. Presumably at any moment google books or the brutish museum is going to come in and digitise that cave and leave those twenty no food to live on unless of course some thing called VALIDATION saves them
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