Quote:quote:Can curators require OASIS project uploads before signing off planning conditions?
I think the curator?s answer would be that if that were agreed in the so-called WRITTEN scheme of works than yes (thank god for verbal agreements)
But as Taliesin says oasis seems to have a different view of its self, as its basic intention was to be an index rather than it being a repository of grey literature (I presume that by uploads you mean not just a descriptive record of your project but products like reports drawings..)
Why do I know (alright, think that I know) this, well -as you might recall from many previous rants I have a bit of a bee in my bonnet about copyright (and a hatred of the state). I see copyright as the basic product of a professional field excavator?.I base my self-employment with the Inland Revenue on it. I extend this view to the reports that I produce and believe that I am being mindful of the institutes of FIELD archaeologists code of conduct?..
anyway when oasis first came out I though great..it was introduced to me as a way to cut down costs on printing out reports, the tedium of binding them up and thinking that putting grey literature into smrs was a way to fame and fortune and there was always the worry that after having produced 15 ring bound copies the curator their mother, the client their mother did not like it and would insist that I start all over again or GIVE THEM MY HOUSE. But the word validation came up and I though whats that all about. It appeared that once I had downloaded the report that before it could be displayed for the public the smr had to validate it. What was bit odd about this was that often by the time I had gone to upload the report that the curator had accepted the report. Now I plough fields where the curator is also the smr and potential competitor, where the smr is also the curator (and I don?t think that they are a competitor although they are making money out of archaeology so..) and the main place where the smr seems to be distinct to the curators?(and both are making money out of archaeology)
anyway I discovered that all the big boys in my area at the time were noticeably not up loading reports that I could get at in the smr (they don?t call it smr round my way in one of the areas for some inexplicable reason) and so it came about that so long as I had given a description of the report/project with oasis and supplied a print out of that record with the hardcopies for HER smr that was sent by way of the curators that I could get away (get away) with not having to spend time up loading the reports. So I didn?t upload and this is how I left it and I went away to consider validation.
Validation- now I once did a course in databases and I reserve the right to change my report?
anyway I came up eventually with a cunning polly as I had seen very little movement on this subject over the last two years and I also I wanted to get my name visibly up on oasis so that I could get involved in bigger frauds and tried to upload my first ever report what I did on my own and this is where I entered into a email correspondence with the funny little people at the oasis who said
Quote:quote:The system is primarily designed for the reporting of current fieldwork projects with the aim of getting the project information into both the HER and the NMR.
and that there was a problem with validation and that I might like to wait around for something called Glade which will be very refreshing when it appears.
anyway so I went to the smr and said are you having a problem with validation and they said yes we aint got the time(money) to do it
well folks why not drop validation and leave that to the archaeologhists ?we have codes for this sort of thing and I want the right after the curator has accepted my report to then put in the report what I thought about their conditions which they had inflicted on my client , the little old lady with porch extention who I made employ me using an ice contract the terms of which I have found that I can charge her for (plus a small handling charge).
