Applying the standards#
This questionnaire aims at making a survey on the current guidance within the institutions in charge of archiving the archaeological documentation. The results of the survey made within the scope of the ARCHES project will be published on this website.
If you are interested in obtaining a copy of this questionnaire or if you are interested in joining the EAC-Archaeological Archives Working Party (see ARCHES Background of the project), please send us a mail to the following address: [email protected]
The Documentary Archive - a definition
The documentary archive consists of items such as:- correspondence, contracts, specifications, notes, records, indexes, catalogues, reports, maps, plans, section drawings, elevations, site photographs, object images, CAD files, databases, digital aerial photograph interpretations, excavation archives, geophysical and other survey data, GIS files, images, satellite imagery, spreadsheets, text files, analytical results and 3-D data.
These can be created on the following carrier media:
- Drawn, photographic, written and printed material on paper
- Drawn material on film
- Photographs on film, transparencies, x-radiographs, videotape and microfilm
- Digital material on hard drives or transfer media such as CD-ROMs, data-sticks or flash drives, DVDs, floppy discs, hard discs, and magnetic tape.