期刊名称：ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2194-9042
电子版ISSN：2194-9050
出版年度：2001
卷号：XXXIV-5/C7
出版社：Copernicus Publications
摘要：I was supposed to participate in this important meeting of CIPA, representing the bureau of ICOMOS. I regret very much not being able to be here. I regret not being able to be here, not as representative of ICOMOS, but as a colleague who would like very much to listen, learn and share some thoughts with all of you. I am quite often a frustrated user and that is why I wish I could be here. But I used to also be sometimes a kind of primitive provider, when I was measuring walls, stones and their levels on archaeological excavations. Maybe this is why I am so aware of the gap and the need to bridge it. A few years ago, this gap was presented to me in a warning from a colleague, a conservationist, telling me: "Don't ask for the advice of colleagues from the documentation department. They are dangerous. Whenever you ask for their input in a project it becomes an extremely expensive documentation project and there is not much left for the rest". This might be extreme, but I am quite sure that many of us, both providers and users, have more than once had the feeling that we were being misunderstood by the other or maybe even that someone was taking advantage of our professional ignorance. Or how many times has a provider had the impression that the client has no idea what they want. So often we get disappointing results, we waste our money and time, we accumulate huge quantities of non-relevant and useless information or just have to re-do the work or give up. The problem is certainly not just one of language and not just a result of conservationists not explaining in technical terminology what they need. It is not just because recording and documentation experts sometimes forget that the terms they use are specific to their profession and not a part of everyone's vocabulary. It is more than just language and terminologies. It is about a better understanding of each others' professional fields without having to become experts in those other fields. Article 16 of The Venice Charter is very important and knowing it is already a step forward; but knowing and understanding the Venice Charter as a whole and what stands behind it will be the real breakthrough. The "why" and "for what purpose" are in this case the questions to ask. When the provider knows what to ask, the user will be better able to provide the right answers and they will both understand better what is needed. Surprisingly, or not, very often conservationists also forget to ask themselves why certain documentation is required and how it is going to serve a project or study. The objectives are not the same for every project and that is why a provider's advice that "this is the most accurate method" is not necessarily what is needed
