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AF4 Provide information on the material remains of past communities to others

AF4.3 Collate and present data to meet customers' requirements

Performance Required

This will involve:

1. Identifying all the information required for analysis
2. Ensuring the information is collated according to the agreed criteria and procedures
3. Identifying any problems with the collation of information and taking appropriate action to deal with them
4. Evaluating the information for its contribution to the analysis
5. Identifying the limits of the information and any gaps that might require additional or other types of information
6. Recording the results of the collation accurately in an appropriate information system
7. Complying with all relevant legislation, codes of practice, standards, procedures, and guidelines

Occupational Context

1. Criteria:
   • Of organisational / funding / planning policies and legislation
   • Of the research capacity and resources
   • Of relevant and participating interest groups, research bodies, specialists, etc
2. Problems
   • Relating to meeting customer needs and requirements
   • Relating to customer, public and professional expectations
   • Relating to capacity limitations and constraints of resources
3. Contributions
   • In terms of knowledge base
   • In terms of capacity for learning and development
   • Toward organisational credibility
   • In terms of future research
4. Appropriate information system
   • To the format of the data
   • To the content and context of the data
   • For the location of the information: research interest arena/ geographical and departmental position
   • To the capacity and resources of the organisation

Knowledge Requirements

You need to know about:

• How much information is usually required for analysis
• Why it is important to apply the agreed criteria and procedures
• What are the disclosure procedures relating to information
• Why it is important to be able to provide an audit trail
• What types of problem could occur
• What actions could be taken for different types of problem
• What are the evaluation criteria that could be used
• How information might not provide all that is required
• What type of additional or other types of information might be required
• What are the systems for recording the collated information
• Why it is important to use the systems
• What are the procedures relating to the use of the systems

Required Skills

N/A

Evidence Required

You should provide evidence that you can collate and present data to meet customers’ requirements

The candidate should be questioned, based upon the documentation provided, to explore how they:

• collate and present data to meet customers' requirements

Evidence Rules

The candidate should have been involved over time in providing a range of technical and non-technical information about the historic environment to others, internally and externally.

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