8th August 2006, 11:05 AM
'...and then, I will RULE THE WORLD!! Mwah ha ha ha!!...'
Just kidding.
As an SMR user I would find this really useful, particularly if it crossed modern county boundaries. It could be quick, easy and comprehensive if it was set up and maintained properly. I might be able to rapidly re-interrogate the data to refine my searches, which you can't do if every search must be requested from the SMR officer who might not be able to get back to me for two weeks. However, the curators out there might have some reservations about cost, compatability, responsibility, etc.
I suspect that somebody somewhere would soon find themselves regarded as surplus to requirements by their local government paymasters, while no central govenment body is likely to dig deep and pay for an administrator.
I could be wrong. Perhaps just bundling up entries and handing them over to an external source (with it's own funding) might save planning archaeologists from the labour of answering SMR search requests, allowing them to get on with their myriad other tasks.
So: a very nice ideal, but how would it pan out in practice?
'Have a good plan, execute it violently, do it today'.
General MacArthur
Just kidding.
As an SMR user I would find this really useful, particularly if it crossed modern county boundaries. It could be quick, easy and comprehensive if it was set up and maintained properly. I might be able to rapidly re-interrogate the data to refine my searches, which you can't do if every search must be requested from the SMR officer who might not be able to get back to me for two weeks. However, the curators out there might have some reservations about cost, compatability, responsibility, etc.
I suspect that somebody somewhere would soon find themselves regarded as surplus to requirements by their local government paymasters, while no central govenment body is likely to dig deep and pay for an administrator.
I could be wrong. Perhaps just bundling up entries and handing them over to an external source (with it's own funding) might save planning archaeologists from the labour of answering SMR search requests, allowing them to get on with their myriad other tasks.
So: a very nice ideal, but how would it pan out in practice?
'Have a good plan, execute it violently, do it today'.
General MacArthur