27th February 2012, 08:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 27th February 2012, 10:19 PM by Martin Locock.)
I was thinking about the development of professional practice, and my judgement would be:
project objectives better commercial
quality of fieldwork better pre-commercial
speed of fieldwork better commercial
completeness and consistency of recording better commercial
quality of recording better pre-commercial
production of report/publication better commercial
quality of report/publication better pre-commercial
archive completeness better commercial
So it's not a question of good and bad, but rather a shift in what we think we are trying to achieve. Which is not to say that we can't adopt the best of pre-commercial practice: I suppose the problem is that those elements are harder to quantify, measure and cost.
project objectives better commercial
quality of fieldwork better pre-commercial
speed of fieldwork better commercial
completeness and consistency of recording better commercial
quality of recording better pre-commercial
production of report/publication better commercial
quality of report/publication better pre-commercial
archive completeness better commercial
So it's not a question of good and bad, but rather a shift in what we think we are trying to achieve. Which is not to say that we can't adopt the best of pre-commercial practice: I suppose the problem is that those elements are harder to quantify, measure and cost.