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HERALD Update
Over the summer holiday period we’ve continued to work away at trying to make sense of the results of the range of surveys we undertook earlier…
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The ADS goes to the Houses of Parliament
The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) hosted an exhibition in the Members’ Dining Room in the House of Commons on Tuesday (15th July) to…
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Keep Calm and Archive On-line
Catherine and Ray from the SWORD-ARM project were amongst ADS staff who attended the Institute for Archaeologists (IfA) annual conference last week at the Aston Conference…
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ADS Easy and our Collection Management System
The ADS Easy interface will undoubtedly streamline our processes for the acceptance of files and file-level metadata. Ultimately, this data will be stored in our internal…
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ADS Easy Workshop
Last week marked a significant milestone in the Sword-Arm project with the first demonstration of ADS Easy to a group of invited stakeholders and project partners.…
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SWORD ARM: What’s in a name?
There seem to be two very important questions that need to be answered when creating a new web resource or tool; what colour is it going…
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SWORD ARM: Thinking about institutional repositories
I had recently had the opportunity to attend an event organised by the team at the Leeds University RoaDMaP project, another of the projects funded under…
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The dark art of costing for digital preservation
For as long as the ADS has existed we have made a charge to some parts of the archaeological sector for the archiving and dissemination services…
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SWORD-ARM: the benefits
While undertaking the SWORDARM project work, all the time wondering ‘if we build it, will they come’, we have had time to reflect on what we…
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Automated ingest and the SWORD-ARM project: the project aims
The growing dependence on digital data within traditional research environments, and increasingly within the commercial sector of archaeological practice, has seen an associated increase in awareness…
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MRD Meeting Nottingham
On 1st-2nd December I represented SWORD-ARM at the Managing Research Data programme kick-off meeting in Nottingham. For an organisation that has been undertaking digital preservation within a…
