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Shows you the total lack of imagination in public policy that is the UK. Currently there is no apprenticeship route in archaeology. Simultaneously there is som
by ak_111 2y ago
Shows you the total lack of imagination in public policy that is the UK.
Currently there is no apprenticeship route in archaeology. Simultaneously there is something like millions of objects uncatalogued at the British museum (note cataloging is not simply recording, it is more like expert annotation). So you could literally keep an army of apprentices occupied and rigorously trained for at least three generations by just maintaining the British museum catalog.
What is annoying is that the main imaginative policy that will come out of it is a politician giving a full newspaper spread on how they intend to use AI to solve the cataloging issue and, to rub salt on the wound, by outsourcing the AI system to Microsoft/Accenture.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> outsourcing the AI system to Microsoft/Accenture Who will solve 80% of the problem by hiring archaeologist apprentices in America. (Source: friend is in an archaeology programme in Arizona. They're managing a dig in Turkey for a European museum that outsourced the task to an American consultant, which makes no sense.)