28th April 2012, 07:08 PM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:As most of the work done in the area covered by the GGAT HER would be work done by GGAT, why is necessary to scan grey literature? Wouldn't it be easier to just upload the original word processor/AutoCAD documents that made up the reports? I am giuessing that GGAT's archive still has the original word processor/AutoCAD documents.....
Hopefully GGAT do have copies of the original digital documents especially if they created them but that is not always the case in other HERs . Sometimes all that lands on the desk is a printed copy of the report hence the need to scan. There is of course the historical archive it isn't that long ago things were done the old fashioned way.