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<h2 align=center>CUCC Expedition Handbook: Surveying<br>
In the UK</h2>
<p>In an ideal world, we would have a beautifully drawn up survey and
detailed guidebook descriptions of everything ready to show at the BCRA
conference (mid-September). Although we are getting better, it is in fact a
struggle to get these before next expedition ! Life is made particularly
difficult when bits of data and description arrive in dribs and drabs,
meaning a lot of piecemeal updating. By the time the majority of expo members
are back in Cambridge, it is at least two months since the return home, all
urgency has been lost and memories have faded. To avoid this, <b>think</b>:
<p>Did you have to leave Austria without finishing your sketching ? Use the
post or visit Cambridge ! Get hold of a centre line and draw up your survey
as soon as possible - don't leave it to the start of next term when your
memory will have faded.
<p>Have you written a passage description ? If not, do it when you get home.
If you can type it, so much the better, email it to
Andy Waddington <b>&lt;austria&gt; at pennine.demon.co.uk</b>
and to
Wookey <b>&lt;wookey&gt; at aleph1.co.uk</b> and
anyone else who may have been there. Failing that, send a disc to Andy or
Wookey (someone with email, at least) or whoever is in Cambridge doing the
drawing up. If you have to write it on paper, photocopy it, send a copy to
whoever has the survey book (to glue in) and to someone else who will take
the trouble to type it up and circulate it.
<p>Have you got the survey book or the log book ? Photocopy it so there is a
back up and get copies to other addresses before your house burns down. Get
copies (or the original) to Andy, Wookey, whoever is doing the drawing up, or
anyone who will volunteer to type in the logbook or cave descriptions.
<p>Have you got some good (even recognisable...) photographs ? Offer them
to whoever is doing the BCRA lecture. Try to get them scanned and send
jpegs to Andy, or even better, let Andy have 35mm negatives (not the
prints) or slides to scan - he now has a Nikon scanner which does even
better than the Photo-CD resolution used for the 1996 images..
<p>Have you some unique experience or amusing anecdote ? Write an article
for the exCS/CUCC mailing list, for the web site and/or the journal.
<p>Is the only copy of the survey data on your computer ? Get it backed up,
preferably including copies to other people involved. Version control may
be a pain, but multiple disc failures have caused total loss of the
Kaninchenh&ouml;hle dataset once already, and backup to another site
saves almost infinite grief.
<p>Have you got the <b>only</b> copy of <i>anything</i> else ? Make backups
and distribute them <b>now!</b>
<p>Are you a complete computer nerd with too much spare time ? Incorporate
all of the above into the web site :-)
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