26th September 2007, 02:55 PM
Vulpes, you may indeed be right... but this document did come as a surprise to most people...
If the IFA had been involved in the translation, why have we never heard of this... Why are we benchmarking a profession and looking at job roles and requirements... when in the Dutch document there is alrady a pretty decent template.. involving all the main job families... with 3 levels ... We seem to be reinventing the wheel - (or I should say, starting from scratch when we could have had a head start..)
IFA S&Gs are as vague as anyone... a game to play is act as bad contractor good curator... (or visa versa) and you can get round anything...
A European Standard Document (with regional appendices) would allow us all to follow best practice.... and know that whether you are in Midlothian or Mycanae.. if you are carrying out an excavation you are bound to the same base standard, where the same level of expertise is expected, where the expecations of reports, artefact curation, material archiving is known. There are certain 'universal truths' and certain areas of debate... but put it this way... saying carry out a RCAHE Level 2 building record is open to various interpretation...
There is a case for professional judgement... and each may have their own comment, however, If I go to a garage, and ask for a change of tyres, I expect the same if I am in Germany or Greece, UK or Portugal... If I ask for a structural survey of a building, I expect it to cover the same ground no matter where I am... etc... so why not archaeology... ?
"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu
If the IFA had been involved in the translation, why have we never heard of this... Why are we benchmarking a profession and looking at job roles and requirements... when in the Dutch document there is alrady a pretty decent template.. involving all the main job families... with 3 levels ... We seem to be reinventing the wheel - (or I should say, starting from scratch when we could have had a head start..)
IFA S&Gs are as vague as anyone... a game to play is act as bad contractor good curator... (or visa versa) and you can get round anything...
A European Standard Document (with regional appendices) would allow us all to follow best practice.... and know that whether you are in Midlothian or Mycanae.. if you are carrying out an excavation you are bound to the same base standard, where the same level of expertise is expected, where the expecations of reports, artefact curation, material archiving is known. There are certain 'universal truths' and certain areas of debate... but put it this way... saying carry out a RCAHE Level 2 building record is open to various interpretation...
There is a case for professional judgement... and each may have their own comment, however, If I go to a garage, and ask for a change of tyres, I expect the same if I am in Germany or Greece, UK or Portugal... If I ask for a structural survey of a building, I expect it to cover the same ground no matter where I am... etc... so why not archaeology... ?
"No job worth doing was ever done on time or under budget.."
Khufu