Informing the Future of the Past. An essential set of guidelines for Historic Environment Records for all aspects of management, working practices, standards, systems and services.
Our authoritative and practical Guides to Good Practice provide guidence on the creation, management and curation of common digital data types.
Our data management guidence is the first step in ensuring the long-term preservation of your digital data, providing advice on how to managed data both during and after the research process.
This guide explains how to digitise journal articles or grey literature reports with a view to their long-term sustainability. The guidance is based on typical requirements for the deposit of data with the ADS.
This guidance assists in the development of a strategic and managed approach to the appraisal and selection of digital data for long-term preservation.
The ADS is the recommended repository for several funding organisations. The following guidence provides information for grant holders and applicants.
The ADS supports research, learning and teaching with free, high quality and dependable digital resources. Explore our resources here.
Archaeological archives may sometimes include sensitive or confidential data which relate to identifiable individuals. Guidence for the deposition of personal, confidential and/or sensitive data can be found here.
Links to further advice and a selection of documents relating to the creation and long term curation of digital research outputs.