12th June 2011, 05:12 PM
GnomeKing Wrote:How can the real contribution of 'old diggers' and Field Work Experts be tracked and rewarded?
There was a suggestion made on another thread that all primary site archive material should be available online. While there would be issues associated with this (cost to digitise paper records, secure and long-term server space etc), this would possibly be beneficial in allowing the expertise of individual diggers to be recognised. For example, when applying for a job, you could provide the URL to the online archives of sites you'd worked on, or even to specific context sheets or plans, which would allow the prospective employer to see examples of planning, recording, interpretation etc. Indeed, depending on how these records were stored and accessed, it'd be possible to create a virtual personal archive of primary records from all the sites you'd worked on over the course of your career, by creating a portal site to combine all the records you'd created from the disparate site archives, wherever they were held.
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum