thierrygonon wrote:
I plan to make a full day of presentation and after that, a half-day round-table about CAVE INVENTORIES : I'd like to put on paper some general guidelines for european inventories, so that we can find on every national inventories in Europe some common features, at the same (top) level of records...
Well, there's no point in waiting two years to do something. If I may make an observation that no inventory can work unless it actually does something -- you have to get rewarded for putting something into it because we can't punish people for not putting data into it. Here's a contribution to the effort: http://seagrass.goatchurch.org.uk/~mjg/cgi-bin/map.py All you need to post on the web is a location, scale, orientation and bitmap of a survey of whatever (low) quality you are comfortable with that doesn't infringe on your control of the data, and it can be seen in the global geographical context on any cave portal someone chooses to write (not necessarily on my own server). This would form the backbone of any cave inventory, and you guys can start adding a few examples to it now. Only after you've gathered some material examples from around the world, and shown that there is a method of engaging people in the project, is it worth doing a meeting to make it better organized. Julian T.