Good practice guide

Section 1: Aims and objectives

1.1 Why a GIS Guide to Good Practice?
1.2 How best to use this Guide
1.3 The thematic sections

Section 2: A brief introduction to GIS and Archaeology

2.1 Introduction
2.2 Some core references
2.3 The early years and spatial statistics
2.4 Landscapes, present and past
2.5 Current concerns

Section 3: Spatial data types

3.1 Spatial data
3.2 Principle GIS spatial data models
3.3 Generic issues
3.4 Precision and accuracy
3.5 Scale and resolution
3.6 Common sources of spatial data
3.7 Attribute data - information about the spatial features you have recorded
3.8 Common sources of attribute data
3.9 Designing a new attribute database
3.10 Issues to consider when structuring and organising a flexible attribute database

Section 4: Structuring, organising and maintaining information

4.1 Layers and themes
4.2 Choice of vector, raster or combined forms of spatial database
4.3 Combining and integrating attribute databases
4.4 Derived data
4.5 Copyright issues - an example from the Ordnance Survey

Section 5: Documenting the GIS data set

5.1 Why document your data?
5.2 Levels of documentation
5.3 Information to be recorded
5.4 Dublin Core metadata
5.5 Ancillary documentation: what to supply and why