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Resource identifiers

• ADS Collection: 368
• doi:10.5284/1000423
• How to cite using this DOI

Digital Object Identifiers

Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) are persistent identifiers which can be used to consistently and accurately reference digital objects and/or content. The DOIs provide a way for the ADS resources to be cited in a similar fashion to traditional scholarly materials. More information on DOIs at the ADS can be found on our help page.

Citing this DOI

DOIs should be the last element in a citation irrespective of the format used. The DOI citation should begin with "doi:" in lowercase followed by the DOI with no spaces between the ":" and the DOI.

doi:10.5284/1000423

DOIs can also be cited as a persistent link from another Web page. This is done by appending the DOI Resolver with the DOI. This would look like:

http://dx.doi.org/10.5284/1000423

However, if it is possible it is best to hide the URL in the href property of the <a> tag and have the link text be of the form doi:10.5284/1000423. The HTML for this would look like:

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5284/1000423">doi:10.5284/1000423</a>

Sample Citation for this DOI

Vernacular Architecture Group (2011) Cruck database [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] (doi:10.5284/1000423)

Introduction

This database was originally created (as 80 column cards) by N W Alcock as a Vernacular Architecture Group project, with the collaboration of many members of the group. It was used to generate the published catalogues of cruck buildings in Cruck Construction: an Introduction and Catalogue CBA Research Report 42 (1981) and its predecessor, A Catalogue of Cruck Buildings (Phillimore for Vernacular Architecture Group, 1973).

1 Birmingham Road, Stoneleigh, Warwickshire,
a three-bay (four-truss) cruck cottage, dated by dendrochronology to 1480

Since then the database has been migrated to PARADOX, though its fields retain the letter codings that were introduced in 1973 to save space and input time. It has been added to intermittently, as material came to hand, and has now grown from c. 4000 (1981) to 6000 entries. A major update was carried out in summer 2002, when some counties being actively researched were systematically revised. Maps based on these results are published in Vernacular Architecture vol. 33 (2002), 67-70.

Additional entries and revisions have been incorporated up to July 2011, giving a total of 6032 entries (4156 true crucks). Corrections and new entries will be welcomed. Please submit them using the SEND e-mail enquiry form.

The database contains information on the name, location, function and condition of the cruck buildings with further details on the crucks themselves and bibliographic references. For a more detailed description of the database go to the Overview page, or carry out a search on the data using the Query page.