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The ADS Training Portal
Data Management and Digital Preservation shouldn’t be skills only some archaeologists can access. That’s why we’re opening our vault and providing access to our training materials.…
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Welcome to Ingest – our new deposit system for heritage data
We at the ADS and HSDS are excited to announce the launch of our new deposit system – Ingest. Ingest enables researchers, field archaeologists, heritage scientists…
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A New Look for the Oxford Expedition to Egypt: Scene-details Database
We are excited to announce a new version of the Oxford Expedition to Egypt: Scene-details Database, an ADS collection that has been a valuable resource for…
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ADS-easy and Beyond: The Last Decade of Digital Archiving at the ADS
Back in September 2025, I had the pleasure to attend the CIfA Archaeological Archives Group conference “From Past to Future: Archiving 2000–2025”. My presentation gave an…
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ADS API Development: Insights from Our 2025 User Survey
Introduction Back in May 2025, we at the ADS issued a survey to explore the possibility of implementing APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to allow our users…
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Taking the HS2 Archive to ICA Barcelona 2025
During the last week of October 2025, I had the opportunity to represent the Archaeology Data Service (ADS) at the International Council on Archives (ICA) Congress…
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My First Few Months at the ADS – Ian Wyre
I’m Dr Ian Wyre and I started working with the Archaeology Data Service as a Digital Archives Assistant in May 2025. I had begun my career…
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ADS Goes to CAA UK 2025 in Cambridge
On 9th and 10th December 2025, I had the opportunity to attend the annual conference organised by the British chapter of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods…
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Exploring 3D Documentation and Virtual Archaeology in Brno: My Experience at the ATRIUM Summer School
Back in September, I had the opportunity to attend the ATRIUM Summer School on 3D Models in Archaeology, hosted by the Archaeological Information System of the…
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Writing Accessible Documents: Ways to improve the accessibility of your digital content
Accessibility… Who is it good for? … Absolutely everyone. That’s right. Everyone. Everyone can benefit from improved accessibility in the digital content we all produce. But…
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Project Face Lift
Over the last year the ADS has seen some significant changes, including a massive increase in staff and an influx of archives being deposited. As a…
