28th June 2007, 07:15 PM
I sympathise.
Vertually all aspects of commercial projects are now digital; why hold on to antiquated photographic formats?
We are in the age of e-planning: whats the point of being able to access (in theory) all documents relating to a planning application but not the archaeological componant?
Primary archive data is frequently produced in digital formats only: eg site plans, Context data is increasingly digitally captured on site without a paper archive being produced; internet based publication is on the increase. No unit so far as I am aware uses archive grade materials for all aspects of site archives, correspondence or research archive or indeed paper copies of reports.
If you have doubts over long-term archive issues of digital data, lets go back to the 1970s, otherwise whats the point of having B & W photographs in 200years if all other information is lost?
Vertually all aspects of commercial projects are now digital; why hold on to antiquated photographic formats?
We are in the age of e-planning: whats the point of being able to access (in theory) all documents relating to a planning application but not the archaeological componant?
Primary archive data is frequently produced in digital formats only: eg site plans, Context data is increasingly digitally captured on site without a paper archive being produced; internet based publication is on the increase. No unit so far as I am aware uses archive grade materials for all aspects of site archives, correspondence or research archive or indeed paper copies of reports.
If you have doubts over long-term archive issues of digital data, lets go back to the 1970s, otherwise whats the point of having B & W photographs in 200years if all other information is lost?