21st July 2013, 09:45 AM
Unitof1 Wrote:. the archaeologist is the measure of all things and you think a putting a machine somewhere creates interpretation. sorry I don't follow that.......and clearly you don't even bother to read to the end of sentences!! I wrote 'My total station interprets every point I measure (I have a list of polygon, point and line codings as long as your angst), which then after processing through a GIS (at present Intrasis) transfers that information to an integrated database' .....The point of applying a coding to every point being that the 'coding'is the interpretation.....and its application, the interface between the archaeologist and the data.....that is no different to writing an interpretation of a structure or feature on a context sheet or in a site diary. I just write it directly into the TST....My GIS programme also has the facility for free text if the interpretation needs clarification or expansion. All I am actually doing different to David is cutting out the use of paper or film and shortening the process between data acquisition and a digital form of the archive....otherwise (at least to my mind), I still apply all of the principles and experience gained in all my years as a field archaeologist.....that said I think we are just discussing the recording 'media', other people might think this thread is about something different entirely.....
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