Completed project
HEIRPORT
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…
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Completed project
ARENA
ARENA (Archaeological Records of Europe Network Access Project) was a three year project supported by the European Union through the Culture 2000 programme. It began in…
Completed project
EFCHED
The major objective of the EFCHED (Environmental Factors in the Chronology of Human Evolution and Dispersal) programme has been to integrate and strengthen UK research in…
Completed project
PATOIS
Background and Context The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) was established to collect, describe, catalogue, preserve, and provide user support for digital resources that are created as a product…
Completed project
Making IT Happen: proving the common information environment
The Common Information Environment Demonstrator project (aka the CIE Demonstrator) was a collaborative project between the ADS and Adiuri Systems. The project was initiated by the…
Completed project
ARCHway
ARCHway was led by University of York library and commissioned by the Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP). The project sought to unite the archaeology journal holdings…
Completed project
DAPPER
DAPPER (Digital Archiving Pilot Project: Excavation Records) arose from a meeting held between the ADS, Association of Local Government Archaeological Officers (ALGAO), English Heritage and Royal…
Completed project
Strategies for Digital Data: Findings and recommendations from Digital Data in Archaeology: A Survey of User Needs
In the spring and summer of 1998 the ADS carried out a survey of the creation, archiving, use and re-use of digital data in archaeology. The…
Completed project
OASIS
In 1999 ADS, English Heritage (now Historic England) and the Research Support Libraries Programme launched an 18-month pilot project called OASIS. With an acronym derived from…
