standards anyone?

[P Prentice]

has anybody got any standards going spare? the archaeology profession is short of them and bajrs cant agree that the ifa's are enforcable, algao cant make them, and the cba dont need them.

[Jack]

Yep,
I got oodles.

Personal standards, professional standards and standards of hygiene............although the last one is slipping.

[BAJR]

My favourite Standard...

Dutch Archaeology Quality Standard. Dutch Archaeology Quality Standard. W.J.H. Willems & R.W. Brandt. Den Haag 2004
http://www.sikb.nl/upload/documents/archeo/knauk.pdf

Something we could all agree to and is enforceable as it is very very clear.

[P Prentice]

My favourite Standard...

Dutch Archaeology Quality Standard. Dutch Archaeology Quality Standard. W.J.H. Willems & R.W. Brandt. Den Haag 2004
http://www.sikb.nl/upload/documents/archeo/knauk.pdf

Something we could all agree to and is enforceable as it is very very clear.

yep - i would back this

[Sith]

Very interesting, but only one mention of 'Consultants'? :face-stir:

[P Prentice]

Very interesting, but only one mention of 'Consultants'? :face-stir:

one is too many

[GnomeKing]

Dutch Archaeology Quality Standard. Dutch Archaeology Quality Standard. W.J.H. Willems & R.W. Brandt. Den Haag 2004
http://www.sikb.nl/upload/documents/archeo/knauk.pdf :face-approve:

Need to read more of very detailed document > but i think i would back this also.

Rules are one thing - enforcement is another. Three things seem necessary.
-'Inspectors' with real scope, knowledge, and teeth.
-mechanism for concerns to be raised by team members about the running/direction of their own projects, and timely response from 'Judicial' parties (+ back-up by Inspection, external scrutiny, and 'enforcement orders'/damage to reputation)
-Cultures and Technologies of Peer Review (read each others Reports! Find out how that site you dug X years ago was reported!) + 'forums' where the content of reports can be meaningfully discussed/evaluated, and good/bad practice publicised.


PS: can we get some Dutch views on how well this works/any issues practitioners have with? If possible, a list of other "BAJRs' Favourite Guidelines, for community to pick over?

[Dinosaur]

For some reason the .pdf refuses to open on this laptop, but from the comments above sounds along the right lines, I'd be up for supporting something like that (although obviously I'd like to see the small print) :face-approve:

[BAJR]

Another fave guideline... ( and one I was a co-author on - well I am a buildings archaeologist - and this aids curators to know what to ask for and if it is met)

Historic Building Recording. Guidance for Curators and Commercial Archaeological Contractors. By B. Simpson and D. Connolly. East Lothian Council
http://www.eastlothian.gov.uk/downloads/...Draft2.pdf

[Wax]

BAJR standards :face-approve: ( seriously I am very much guided by the peer review that goes on on this forum). I believe in the IFA standards but gasp in amazement at their almost total failure to enforce them hence my failure to engage with tha IFA.