28th April 2012, 08:17 PM
(I am a trustee of GGAT)
Making the original reports available online would be better than nothing, but having 2000 separate documents would be hard to search and use. HERs use structured data for a reason - if you want to run a query for a particular site type, period, location, or community then data must be held in these separate fields. Therefore conversion of a text description, or even a tabular catalogue, requires human intervention..
The idea behind the project is that volunteers are trained in the HER structure and content and then go through the information in the reports. The new records are checked and validated by the HER manager before being uploaded to the Archwilio system.
There would be copyright issues about copying text straight from reports.
To satisfy Unit's curiosity about VAT, at one stage all work undertake by an educational charity was VAT free but there has been a change in the rules and the situation is more complex, so that some services are VAT free and some are not.
Making the original reports available online would be better than nothing, but having 2000 separate documents would be hard to search and use. HERs use structured data for a reason - if you want to run a query for a particular site type, period, location, or community then data must be held in these separate fields. Therefore conversion of a text description, or even a tabular catalogue, requires human intervention..
The idea behind the project is that volunteers are trained in the HER structure and content and then go through the information in the reports. The new records are checked and validated by the HER manager before being uploaded to the Archwilio system.
There would be copyright issues about copying text straight from reports.
To satisfy Unit's curiosity about VAT, at one stage all work undertake by an educational charity was VAT free but there has been a change in the rules and the situation is more complex, so that some services are VAT free and some are not.