3rd February 2005, 10:36 AM
I do agree Troll, exess stuff could be offered to schools etc. Indeed, at several times while giving talks/ tours around site to schools we have been asked for Unstrat material. Unfortunately the curator/ DC is not really willing to let stuff 'dissapear out of the archive' as he puts it. Arguments that U/S material, unless of intrinsic value, adds nothing to an archive don't seem to work.
Having just delivered a load of site archives to various museums and seen the lack of space/ organisation I do think that the more tangeable bits of what is essentially junk could be given to schools etc. I do take Invisible Mans point about predicting future research needs but surely a list of whos got what that is stored at the curating Museum would mitigate against this.
While I am on the subject of archiving has anybody else had anything to do with entering sites onto the OASIS database? Talk about slow - also why am I doing the SMR officers job as they get paid more than me (as do most folk?)[?]
Having just delivered a load of site archives to various museums and seen the lack of space/ organisation I do think that the more tangeable bits of what is essentially junk could be given to schools etc. I do take Invisible Mans point about predicting future research needs but surely a list of whos got what that is stored at the curating Museum would mitigate against this.
While I am on the subject of archiving has anybody else had anything to do with entering sites onto the OASIS database? Talk about slow - also why am I doing the SMR officers job as they get paid more than me (as do most folk?)[?]