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Digital Object Identifiers: Linking Effectively
One of our top priorities at the ADS is to make our collections findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. This includes utilising sustainable referencing methods such as…
One of our top priorities at the ADS is to make our collections findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. This includes utilising sustainable referencing methods such as…
Following on from our announcement of receiving funding from the University of York’s Partnership for Academic and Commercial Engagement initiative, the ADS has been pleased to…
DigiPres North is a recently established interest group initiated by Bryony Hooper (Digital Preservation Manager at the University of Sheffield) and Dorothy Waugh (Digital Preservation Archivist…
As the use of three-dimensional digitisation technologies is adopted more frequently by commercial archeology companies and independent researchers, the number of 3D objects accessioned, ingested, and…
It has been a busy start to the year at ADS, hence why I now find myself writing about what Curatorial staff did way back in…
As we announced back in March, the ADS is due to launch a series of new features for the ADS Archives templates that provide an accessible…
Towards the end of 2023 the ADS Library passed a considerable milestone of 80,000 fieldwork reports. This corpus is now one of the largest collections of…
This year’s CAAUK conference, organised by the British chapter of CAA (Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology), was held in Edinburgh on Friday 24th and…
The work of the ADS is overseen by a Management Committee made up of representatives of key stakeholders, funders, and user communities. The Committee meets once…
Those of you who have visited the ADS offices will know we are very fortunate to be part of the Department of Archaeology at the University…
Editor Intro: This week’s blog post is written by Richard Paxford, an ADS digital archives assistant who recently joined us in York. Below Richard writes about…