The ADS worked with other UK heritage sector partners to develop HEIRPORT, the first ever portal for the Historic Environment, based on Z39.50 technology, with targets including the ADS catalogue ArchSearch, the National Monuments Records for Scotland and Wales, the English Heritage Excavation Index, SCRAN, and the Portable Antiquities Scheme Database. The proof of concept portal was launched at the British Museum in 2002 by Tam Dalyell MP.
For more information see Austin, T, Pinto, F, Richards, J and Ryan, N (2002) ‘Joined up writing: an Internet portal for research into the historic environment’, in Burenhult, G (ed), Archaeological Informatics: Pushing the Envelope CAA 2001, pp 243-51. BAR International Series 1016. Oxford: Archaeopress
