5th May 2011, 11:20 AM
Dinosaur Wrote:Pessimist! - who says I'm charging? They're ultimately going to be forking out a lump sum for a fairly large book anyway which is not significantly affected by half a dozen extra pages (forgot to mention the 3 or 4 other old jobs by other people that need including), and if I can't track down the finds archive, what project design? Since they're effectively part of my site anyway they'll still need discussing whether I publish them or not.....or are you one of those frighteningly blinkered people that seems to think that your site stops just cos someone in the 19th century put a field boundary round it? :face-stir:
- and anyway, the client hasn't run away screaming when the idea has been mooted in the past...
what project design indeed!
i'm one of those people that thinks the site includes the landscape it sits in and that all reports should include every intervention ever taken place in it. i'm also one of those people that includes a local and regional perspective which includes the grey literature and the forthcomings whenever i can get hold of them. but i work on the understanding that everything is interpretted at the digging stage so i dont necessarily feel the need to trot out verbatim whatever has gone before.
i have managed to publication a backlog project for a 1960/70s excavation which required considerable editing and rewriting as well as changes to plans and section drawings with no fault to the original excavator but absolutely necessary to the integrity of the publication.
what is interesting about your project is the clients apparent willingness to accommodate / subsidise some earlier interventions or your apparent ability to undertake additional work at no extra cost - clearly some of the benefits of not having a project design!