5th July 2011, 04:20 PM
Unitof1 Wrote:
its not about us but rather museums. They don’t want the archive. If they did they would pay for it. If they did pay for it they would have a budget that would target the type and the amount of archive that they wanted to handle. “we” would then be able to construct our archives accordingly. At the moment a discard policy is mostly a dirty word. people take pictures for no reason and write reports that nobody ever reads.
If you say that museums must take all the archive generated by commercial archaeology then commercial archaeology should also fund the “whole” museum or rather create museums called museums of archives -redearths [SIZE=2][SIZE=3]regional stores- [/SIZE]produced by commercial archaeology based on the principle that polluter must pay and presumably the polluter must also pay for any subsequent use made of the archive, so for instance any so called academic research should also be funded by the horrid polluters (often the original owners of the archaeology).[/SIZE]
luckily for all of us the southport group have made exactly the same recomendations
two milestones already this month: agreeing with unit and having a post deleted (for disparaging unit)
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers