FAME, with funding from Historic England, ran a series of webinars focusing on the business, project management and H&S aspects of archaeology. Here you can find the recordings of:
Physical Archives. A webinar on planning for handling the physical archive aspect of projects.
An introduction to the museum context and archive creation and issues: the SMART standard; NPPF; Mendoza review; SMA collecting surveys. Gail Boyle (Bristol Museum)
Archaeological Archives: definitions; composition and the requirements of different elements; archive practice from project planning to deposition, including selection and local and national standards. Deborah Fox (Worcester Museum)
Curatorial practice: accessioning, collections care, accessibility. Kat Baxter (Leeds Museum)
Archive use: outreach, exhibition, education, research. Kate Iles (Bristol Museum)
Here are the links to the resources mentioned in the talks. Most can be found at this link –
http://socmusarch.org.uk/projects/
The Rationalisation guidelines, both on the SMA website
http://socmusarch.org.uk/projects/guidance-on-the-rationalisation-of-museum-archaeology-collections/
And Spectrum Standards:
https://collectionstrust.org.uk/spectrum/
Accessibility – transcripts and captions will be made available for the presentation aspect of the webinars. Made possible with Historic England funding.
