6th October 2009, 11:09 AM
You have it in one BRahn. The OASIS system is primarily a development control tool, dealing 'almost ' exclusively with commercial archaeologists and contractors. It does indeed welcome community archaeology projects and local societies but Open Archive is hoping to (via partners) actively and physically go to each and every society to both promote what they could do and listen to what they are doing - AND help in the scanning and OCR of legacy reports - plus help to suggest ways to place any future reports online. The premise is that there is a wealth of information out there... sitting in each location... but how good would it be to bring it all together - then actually go out there and get it!
It is also good to meet each group as well, a face to face, rather than a hope that they might.
An important point is that it is not a challenge to anyone - and it has been thought through, but welcomes constructive criticism and highlighting of issues.
In addition, the information gathered by Open Archive will be freely available to the relevant bodies- NMRs, HERs and the ADS (as long as they don't want cash!) WE decided to use only the pdf as this also allows simple migration of data.
It is also good to meet each group as well, a face to face, rather than a hope that they might.
An important point is that it is not a challenge to anyone - and it has been thought through, but welcomes constructive criticism and highlighting of issues.
In addition, the information gathered by Open Archive will be freely available to the relevant bodies- NMRs, HERs and the ADS (as long as they don't want cash!) WE decided to use only the pdf as this also allows simple migration of data.
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