14th November 2011, 07:36 PM
organisation is indeed an RO :
sanctions against individuals may yet stay my pen on this (i know someone who knows the actual Field team) - i am concerned with,
a)lack of Quality Control from contracting organisation,
b)fact that this was signed off by County.
It is the organisational failure that concerns me -
For the contractor it is all to easy to lay blame for technical failures with those at the bottom - even if they were in the wrong, they have managers whoes pay is supposed to reflect theier responsibilty for those 'under thier command' - (people make mistakes, yes, but this is why we have 'training', 'reviews', etc).
In terms of County - well yes they may lack time (especially these days) to be as rigours as they might be - .....in which case a formal process may be only way to bring this issue to wider attention.
They might also lack enough experience/talent, in which case, sorry, time to hand over the Baton.
Now Then:
A few things the IFA Might Consider addressing before they/we move any further with this (10 year long) Skills/Accreditation/Chartered status malarkey
1)Are all archives being deposited correctly (i hear that many receiving museum/similar that, if they still receive at all, they are increasingly having sort out the mess of contractors who don't seem to have the resources to CORRECTLY order,label, box, list etc.. their archives. This is presumably a fundamental aspect of the tenders they won, and the booty they gained...........It is also clearly against the Code of Conduct.
(i urge anybody receiving shoddy archives from RO's to start formal complaints!)
2)are all conservation grade artefacts being correctly and properly lifted, stored, packaged, transported ? i hear that several RO's routinely present artefacts for conservation which quite clearly have suffered badly since discovery.....the knowledge is there - the people are available - don't RO's want to pay for Expensive Expert Field Conservators or materials?(hmm).......again this seems to fart loudly in the face of the Code.
There really must be significant developments before and further non-sense about 'Acreditiaion' 'chartered stuatus' etc etc.
THERE IS ALREADY A CODE THAT IS NOT ALWAYS BEING FOLLOWED !!!
CLEAN YOUR OWN HOUSE, BEFORE 'INVITING' US ALL IN!!!
sanctions against individuals may yet stay my pen on this (i know someone who knows the actual Field team) - i am concerned with,
a)lack of Quality Control from contracting organisation,
b)fact that this was signed off by County.
It is the organisational failure that concerns me -
For the contractor it is all to easy to lay blame for technical failures with those at the bottom - even if they were in the wrong, they have managers whoes pay is supposed to reflect theier responsibilty for those 'under thier command' - (people make mistakes, yes, but this is why we have 'training', 'reviews', etc).
In terms of County - well yes they may lack time (especially these days) to be as rigours as they might be - .....in which case a formal process may be only way to bring this issue to wider attention.
They might also lack enough experience/talent, in which case, sorry, time to hand over the Baton.
Now Then:
A few things the IFA Might Consider addressing before they/we move any further with this (10 year long) Skills/Accreditation/Chartered status malarkey
1)Are all archives being deposited correctly (i hear that many receiving museum/similar that, if they still receive at all, they are increasingly having sort out the mess of contractors who don't seem to have the resources to CORRECTLY order,label, box, list etc.. their archives. This is presumably a fundamental aspect of the tenders they won, and the booty they gained...........It is also clearly against the Code of Conduct.
(i urge anybody receiving shoddy archives from RO's to start formal complaints!)
2)are all conservation grade artefacts being correctly and properly lifted, stored, packaged, transported ? i hear that several RO's routinely present artefacts for conservation which quite clearly have suffered badly since discovery.....the knowledge is there - the people are available - don't RO's want to pay for Expensive Expert Field Conservators or materials?(hmm).......again this seems to fart loudly in the face of the Code.
There really must be significant developments before and further non-sense about 'Acreditiaion' 'chartered stuatus' etc etc.
THERE IS ALREADY A CODE THAT IS NOT ALWAYS BEING FOLLOWED !!!
CLEAN YOUR OWN HOUSE, BEFORE 'INVITING' US ALL IN!!!