Internet Archaeology and the Archaeology Data Service are pleased to announce the winner of our 2015 Digital Data Re-use Award. The award was instigated to recognise the outstanding work being carried out through the re-use of digital data and raise awareness of the research potential of data re-use in archaeology and beyond. Find out about the winner, the finalists and the highly commended entries here!

ADS are very pleased to announce that we are now an officially recommended repository for Nature Publishing Group's open access journal Scientific Data. ADS joins approximately 80 other data repositories, representing research data from across the entire scientific spectrum. ADS has been approved by Scientific Data as providing stable archiving and long-term preservation of archaeological data....read more here!

The ADS HERALD team are currently in the process of writing the project design for Stage 2 of the redevelopment of OASIS. The actual redevelopment will start next year (if funded by Historic England and Historic Environment Scotland) and a draft Project Design is now available for comment on how we have represented the opinions and information gathered during the user needs survey and interviews from Stage 1. The requirements identified in Stage 1 were many and varied and so we have tried to make the new OASIS system more flexible so it will meet more people's needs....read more here.