22nd September 2009, 10:47 AM
Thanks Knap,
There are definitely a couple of good points in there. (and of course... thanks for the thumbs up)
WE are hoping (if we can achieve a funding backer... British Academy perhaps?) to move from the Scribd Platform to our own API - though - we already store a copy of the report as well as it being processed into SCribd.
The copyright problem is perhaps the most worrying, and amusingly, we are all now in trouble... however, there are ways round this, and to be honest ... so far the OS have failed to attempt legal action (as far as I am aware) they are perhaps only too aware that this is not a threat - but would be if they started to come down heavy. They are after all a tax payer funded organisation. and are - shall we say... liable to political will.
Even the use of OS coords is copyright .. ! can you believe it... I look to America with envy!
And like Wessex, BAJR guides and my own company reports have at last been 'seen' and read... in comparison with traditional venues of information - the figures were staggering.. and in terms of Wessex.. amazing!
top let people see what I/you mean.. and show just how powerful this is
Guidance
Historic Building Recording - Guidance for Curators and Commercial Archaeological Contractors
3,343 Reads | 378 Downloads
How To Get Involved In Archaeology (BAJR Guide) after 60 days
2,216 Reads | 173 Downloads
Short Guide to Digital Photography in Archaeology
7,004 Reads | 1,180 Downloads
Survey Basics ? Laying out a Trench and Levelling
6,323 Reads | 517 Downloads
etc
Now reports for me are quite good, given the obscure nature of my work..
Newhailes Estate Flower Garden Wall ( a heated brick wall)
3,231 Reads | 69 Downloads
Water Newton rally 2007
3,482 Reads | 114 Downloads
Big Cousland Dig 2008
732 Reads | 30 Downloads (plus 100 paper copies sold)
but look at wessex! with over 14,000 subscribers
Aircraft Crash Sites at Sea - a Scoping Study project report
24,702 Reads (downloads unknown)
Roman Durnovaria - 7 Animal bone
18,769 Reads (downloads unknown)
Pottery identification sheet
4,553 Reads |
This is no fly by night method of opening up our data...
its the future
There are definitely a couple of good points in there. (and of course... thanks for the thumbs up)
WE are hoping (if we can achieve a funding backer... British Academy perhaps?) to move from the Scribd Platform to our own API - though - we already store a copy of the report as well as it being processed into SCribd.
The copyright problem is perhaps the most worrying, and amusingly, we are all now in trouble... however, there are ways round this, and to be honest ... so far the OS have failed to attempt legal action (as far as I am aware) they are perhaps only too aware that this is not a threat - but would be if they started to come down heavy. They are after all a tax payer funded organisation. and are - shall we say... liable to political will.
Even the use of OS coords is copyright .. ! can you believe it... I look to America with envy!
And like Wessex, BAJR guides and my own company reports have at last been 'seen' and read... in comparison with traditional venues of information - the figures were staggering.. and in terms of Wessex.. amazing!
top let people see what I/you mean.. and show just how powerful this is
Guidance
Historic Building Recording - Guidance for Curators and Commercial Archaeological Contractors
3,343 Reads | 378 Downloads
How To Get Involved In Archaeology (BAJR Guide) after 60 days
2,216 Reads | 173 Downloads
Short Guide to Digital Photography in Archaeology
7,004 Reads | 1,180 Downloads
Survey Basics ? Laying out a Trench and Levelling
6,323 Reads | 517 Downloads
etc
Now reports for me are quite good, given the obscure nature of my work..
Newhailes Estate Flower Garden Wall ( a heated brick wall)
3,231 Reads | 69 Downloads
Water Newton rally 2007
3,482 Reads | 114 Downloads
Big Cousland Dig 2008
732 Reads | 30 Downloads (plus 100 paper copies sold)
but look at wessex! with over 14,000 subscribers
Aircraft Crash Sites at Sea - a Scoping Study project report
24,702 Reads (downloads unknown)
Roman Durnovaria - 7 Animal bone
18,769 Reads (downloads unknown)
Pottery identification sheet
4,553 Reads |
This is no fly by night method of opening up our data...
its the future
For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he
Thomas Rainborough 1647
Thomas Rainborough 1647