13th July 2009, 05:09 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by Austin Ainsworth
Quote:quote:Originally posted by matthew.lawThanks Matthew,
>How many academic departments are RO's?
I was curious, and bored, so I looked on the big list of ROs.
The answer is Birmingham and Winchester.
ASE, ULAS and CAU, based at UCL, Leicester and Cambridge respectively are also ROs
so the answer is two, with three university affiliated commercial field units.
Next question, how many community groups are members?
Actually, this sort of makes my point for me... if there aren't very many non-commercial organisations, then you get a commercial bias in the system.
And also, I wasn't saying that non-commercial projects/organisations need to JUSTIFY themselves to the commercial ones, I was saying that if they don't get TALK to other types of project they're not getting their point of view across (i.e. that their ways of working are just as valid). If you believe (and who wouldn't) that the issues such as inclusivitey are important, write to the committee and suggest they put those sorts of policies in the rules.
And agreeing with BAJR hosts last post - I'd suggested R(A)O because I don't know of any other system promoting standards. I do know that IfA have always tried to promote the scheme to non-commercial organisations.
Anyway, back to my non-archaeological job.
