12th November 2005, 06:27 PM
Quote:quote:Originally posted by eggbasket Would it be easier for specialists if the information was provided on CD/DVD instead? In these days of home computers that would seem to be a logical solution.
I personally will always prefer hardcopy to a CD, easier to look through and less chance of eyestrain whilst trying to hunt through pages and pages of info. I would also agree that the client may be paying for the report, but they are not really interested in what it contains, and the reading audience is going to be other archs. The site report is often the only way that other specialists find out about a site and its associated finds. As the EH/CoE guidelines say, the initial report is not the end of work on sites, but very often the impetus for other researchers to do work on the material. In order for this to happen, the report certainly needs to to contain all the necessary info, however dull it may be to non-specialists.
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