5th March 2014, 03:05 PM
Not sure that the ads one is much different but Wessex said that the "Photographic Guide" is supposed to aim "at ensuring the quality, traceability and security of the digital archive. These form part of the overall WA recording system."
With the ads guide I lose the google trail around "InSPECT Significant Properties Testing Report" Montague 2009. but the thing is the ads guide is not contemplating why not to curate analogue pictures. If anything its a list about what not to archive. It has a go at suggesting raw and original data but is vague about copies of "original data". And isn't that the major difference about archaeologists archiving digital data compared to a cartridge of the original bw process film or the actual graphic or context paper sheet. Diggers can all store digital copies through their phones and don't need to care about some forgotten store room to which there is only a limited number of keys and to which they and you or I are highly unlikely to visit ever. Diggers now a days can probably keep a copy of every picture they ever take with a camera. Theres not much reason why they cant show a prospective employers a copy of every bit of work that they have ever done. Today diggers probably go to site with higher resolution cameras than the current 10 megs that Wessex think should be the standard. And that is what I would suggest is the fundamental difference to archiving an archaeologists work today compared to pre Wessex draft policy. Well done Wessex, we don't need permatrace or paper context sheets either.
A prediction: Wessex are still using BW film.
With the ads guide I lose the google trail around "InSPECT Significant Properties Testing Report" Montague 2009. but the thing is the ads guide is not contemplating why not to curate analogue pictures. If anything its a list about what not to archive. It has a go at suggesting raw and original data but is vague about copies of "original data". And isn't that the major difference about archaeologists archiving digital data compared to a cartridge of the original bw process film or the actual graphic or context paper sheet. Diggers can all store digital copies through their phones and don't need to care about some forgotten store room to which there is only a limited number of keys and to which they and you or I are highly unlikely to visit ever. Diggers now a days can probably keep a copy of every picture they ever take with a camera. Theres not much reason why they cant show a prospective employers a copy of every bit of work that they have ever done. Today diggers probably go to site with higher resolution cameras than the current 10 megs that Wessex think should be the standard. And that is what I would suggest is the fundamental difference to archiving an archaeologists work today compared to pre Wessex draft policy. Well done Wessex, we don't need permatrace or paper context sheets either.
A prediction: Wessex are still using BW film.