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Archaeology on Your Doorstep
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…
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ADS, xyzviewer and an open future
The following is a Guest Blog authored by Professor Stephen Todd, currently visiting Professor in the Dept of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. We’re always interested in…
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Defining ‘Usefulness’
Guest post by Jamie Geddes Recently, I have been on a work placement with the Archaeology Data Service, otherwise known as the ADS, situated within the…
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Data Mining with past publications from the ADS: The search for Neolithic crannogs
As part of a broader focus on the recently discovered Neolithic ‘crannogs’ – artificially-constructed islands – in Scotland, the Islands of Stone project has been conducting…
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‘Accessioning Arch Camb’: Gwynedd Archaeological Trust Volunteer Engagement Project
Gwynedd Archaeological Trust volunteers have been researching digitised versions of Archaeologia Cambrensis, the Journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association, as part of the ‘Accessioning Arch Camb’…
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Summer Internship With the ADS: Heritage Open Days
The following is a blog written by Chloe Rushworth, who has recently completed a 4-week Voluntary Placement with the ADS. Chloe has been working with the…
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The Redesign Continues
Hello all, and thank you very much for your feedback to our website redesign survey, they have been really helpful in the redesigning of the website.…
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ADS Homepage Redesign
Here at the Archaeology Data Service, we believe that the way in which we connect to the past truly matters, and as a result, we are…
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Human Settlements in a Digital Universe: The No Man’s Sky Archaeological Project
By Andrew Reinhard On August 11, 2017, a community of a few hundred people awoke to find their homes and farms destroyed, the air too toxic…
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It’s the end!
I’m finally at the end of my (Anastasia Akerman) internship here at ADS, which has flown by. I’ve learned a lot and have been able to…
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Gems in the Library #2 The Underhill Archive
Anastasia Akerman here again, as it’s almost the weekend so obviously this was the right time have fun with some of the beautiful images to be…
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Gems in the ADS Library #1
Hi Anastasia Akerman here again, after spending time working on the ADS library I thought it would be fun to share with you a few gems…
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Digging Data: A new intern at ADS
Hello all, Anastasia Akerman here, I’ve just started a placement here at ADS. I’m currently doing a masters degree in “Outreach and Development for Archaeological Heritage”…
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‘It Makes You Feel Like You Are Working as a Real Scientist’
Using data provided by the ADS for digital archaeological teaching and learning at the University of Vienna Guest Post By: Dominik Hagmann & Fabiola Heynen Dominik…
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The Use of Archived 3D Data Part 3: Final Thoughts and Recommendations
This blog post is the last in a series I (Michaela Mauriello) have published following my investigations into the use and re-use of 3D data held…
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The Use and Re-use of 3D Data from the ADS Archive
Over the past year I, (Michaela Mauriello) have been doing a work placement with the ADS as part of my MSc degree at the University of…
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The Use of Archived 3D Data Part 2: User survey
Hi Michaela Mauriello here, this is the second post in my blog series on the use and re-use of 3D data from the ADS archive. Following the…
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The Use of Archived 3D Data Part 1: Web Statistics and Data Citation Analysis
Hello I am Michaela Mauriello and this is the first post in a three part blog series on my investigations into the use and re-use of…
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Public Use and Interest of 3D Data in the ADS
Over the last decade, archaeological 3D data has become more accessible to the public. There are online archives, similar to the ADS, where users can access…
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Built Legacy: Preserving the Results of Historic Building Investigations
Today we release the findings of our Built Legacy Project (see ADS blog April 2016). The full report can be downloaded here. It’s long been known that…
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Built Legacy: Preserving Historic Buildings Data
By Angela Creswick Responding to concern that there may be gaps in the recording of investigations and sustainable archiving of digital data and reports on standing buildings, the ADS…
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DAI IANUS visits the ADS!
ADS was pleased to recently be the host to three Data Curators from a project called IANUS as part of the ARIADNE project. ADS spent two…
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Felix Schäfer from IANUS visits ADS
Over the past two weeks the ADS has been extremely pleased to have hosted Felix Schäfer from IANUS for a training placement as part of the…
