Empire of Dirt: time to call time on commercial archaeology in Northern Ireland?

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dont go down the oasis could be better but its still great that "publication" can be solved for archaeology because someone apparently makes it free to put a documant on the web. That only so far seems to works if the authors of the documants are not paid for it and in the case of oasis because they have not bothered to investigate charging because that have been absolutly subsidied through government grant. Its not sustainable particularly if it is not statutory. (two- I want to be paid).Be interesting to know how who ever holds that record presents it to the REF excersise http://www.uel.ac.uk/ref/about.htm. All of the university field archaeology units publication used to contribute to the REF insider trading bullpoo.

Of course thats the user interface...but drilling into the data is a pain!

I think any decent HER with the right software could do it better and cheaper....and I run one!

every single aspect of oasis is wrong because it is not subject to demand and nor would any run by a HER if it did not establish a charge based on demand. Oasise/HER are driven purely by their source of revenue. Both most certainly did not invent grey literature which should be remembered for tax purposes is paper based in this country (see statements about vat). Once grey literature used to produce about 15 copies, now around my way about three if you archive. Oasis in terms of paper copies has actually reduced dissemenination by about 80% pdurdin will be sad to know. What you used to do was give away double copies if you could but you still ended up with half left in a cupboard. And that was the sum total of the demand. Ha ha as if drilling into the data was a pain it is non existant. As far as I am concerned grey literature originated from notes made by museum archaeologists mostly on card indexes...yes hosty now theres a requirement to ten different geolocation statements which I always insist on getting wrong.


I would be interested to know archaeologyexil who the pays for the cheaper HER software running. Do you charge to use the smr and Do you think that royalties should be paid to the authors of the documents that you have copies of documents that you nominally have deposited with you to substantiate that a planning condition has been discharged by a planning officer. I always find it interesting to observe the nervousness when photocopying is involved. Does your council pay anything to these people http://www.cla.co.uk/licences/licences_a...he_licence

And a big by the way I still stand by the mantra that I dont need to see a single bloody document, web or paper to undertake a field evaluation. Please quote law if you want to reply to that one or stop me from doing one as they say in the vernacular.