9th May 2013, 07:07 PM
Dinosaur Wrote:Sadly too busy earning a crust currently - hence the suggestion that it should be costed into commercial specs, even a fraction of a percent could probably finance such an enterprise?
Some financing of publishing data that 'falls through the cracks' would be good too - think I've mentioned on here before we (unofficially) stuck together all the AP, geophysics, excavated etc multi-period data for the hinterland of a northern RB small town and came up with a whole that was considerably more than the sum of the parts - BUT its not part of any project and there's no funds to work it up to a publishable form or even licence some of the data we used...since most of the data isn't ours we can't even give the local HER a digital copy, not that it'd be easily compatible with their system anyway
if I am not mistaken EH gives out grants or at least use too- I know budget cuts took 1/3 of the money and maybe they will end it soon but
"Activities that strengthen the ability of the sector to reduce or avoid risk to the historic environment by understanding, managing and conserving" seems like what you are talking about would qualify. I could be wrong but there seems to be some money around for this sort of stuff.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/profe...ng/grants/
If anyone wants help writing proposals for such a project I would be on board.