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Say Goodbye to OASIS Images!
As many readers will be aware the a new OASIS system (OASIS V) is now in place. In preparation for this we have taken the decision…
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Exploring the Re-use of ADS Data: Guest Post Series
The ADS has been interested in the re-use of the data in our archive for as long as the ADS has been preserving data. Providing access…
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Wonders of the ADS
Journey into the archive with our new online gallery The Wonders of the ADS, is a digital exhibition dedicated to highlighting the outstanding digital data held in the…
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New Look Website
The ADS are pleased to announce that the ADS Library will be moving out of its Beta phase and go Live on Tuesday 16th January. Concurrently…
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ADS Goes Live on International Digital Preservation Day
On 30th November 2017 the first ever International Digital Preservation Day will draw together individuals and institutions from across the world to celebrate the collections preserved, the access…
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ADS Library: BETA version now online!
The ADS, Historic England and the Council for British Archaeology are pleased to announce the beta release of ADS Library. Weaving a web of references. The…
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Call for papers: EAA session sponsored by ArchAIDE
The annual EAA Conference will be held this year in Maastricht, the Netherlands from 30 August to 3 September. The ArchAIDE project would like to invite…
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Open Access Archaeology Fund
To mark our shared 20th anniversary year, Internet Archaeology and the Archaeology Data Service have combined forces to launch the Open Access Archaeology Fund, with the…
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Christmas Competition
ADS and Internet Archaeology are teaming up again this year to provide you with the opportunity to win one of our much sought after trowel-shaped usb…
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ADS a Recommended Repository for Nature Publishing Group
ADS are very pleased to announce that we are now an officially recommended repository for Nature Publishing Group’s open access data journal Scientific Data. ADS joins approximately…
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We have a winner! Digital Data Reuse Award 2015
Internet Archaeology and the Archaeology Data Service are pleased to announce the winner of our 2015 Digital Data Reuse Award. The award was instigated to recognise the…
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Digital Data Re-use Award 2015
Internet Archaeology and the Archaeology Data Service have teamed up to provide an Award that recognises the outstanding work being carried out through the re-use of digital…
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OUT NOW: Dendrochronological Data in Archaeology
For a great deal of human history, wood has been an important construction material and remnants of ancient wood are preserved to this day in archaeological…
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Coming Soon: Dendrochronological Data in Archaeology Guide to Good Practice!
ADS and the Digital Collaboratory for Cultural Dendrochronology are pleased to announce that a new Guide to Good Practice on Dendrochronological Data in Archaeology will be available soon.…
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Tell us your ORCID!
ADS and Internet Archaeology have been integrating ORCID iDs to archives and articles for a while now, and with over 1.3 million ORCID iDs issued we are sure…
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You(r) Archaeology – portraying the past competition
What is archaeology? An adventure? A pain in the neck? The appeal of the past? The magic of marvelous sites? A dusty museum? Probably all of…
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ADS 3D Viewer
ADS 3D Viewer is a two year project funded under the ‘Marie Curie Actions’ Seventh Framework Programme, and benefits from the collaboration with the Italian Visual…
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DADAISM Project
The DADAISM project brings together researchers from the diverse fields of archaeology, human computer interaction, image processing, image search and retrieval, and text mining to create…
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On the 12th Day of Christmas…
The competition gave to me … a windswept Bronze Age site, a dig team in the office, an icy Roscommon Castle, a Temple to Saturn, Christmas…
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On the 11th Day of Christmas…
The competition gave to me … a dig team in the office, an icy Roscommon Castle, a Temple to Saturn, Christmas jumpers in the lab,…
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On the 10th Day of Christmas…
The competition gave to me … an icy Roscommon Castle, a Temple to Saturn, Christmas jumpers in the lab, a snowy Silbury Hill, two…
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On the 9th Day of Christmas…
The competition gave to me … a Temple to Saturn, Christmas jumpers in the lab, a snowy Silbury Hill, two ‘geofizzing’ students, a snow…
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On the 8th Day of Christmas…
The competition gave to me … Christmas jumpers in the lab, a snowy Silbury Hill, two ‘geofizzing’ students, a snow covered Castle…
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On the 7th Day of Christmas…
The competition gave to me … a snowy Silbury Hill, two ‘geofizzing’ students, a snow covered Castle Hill, a sweeping digger in the snow, a frosty…
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On the 6th Day of Christmas…
The competition gave to me … two ‘geofizzing’ students, a snow covered Castle Hill, a sweeping digger in the snow, a frosty…
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On the 5th Day of Christmas…
The competition gave to me … a snow covered Castle Hill, a sweeping digger in the snow,…
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On the 4th Day of Christmas…
The competition gave to me … A sweeping digger in the snow, a frosty Grimspound, a Lewis chess piece, and a snow capped Avebury. This image was…
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On the 3rd Day of Christmas
The competition gave to me… A frosty Grimspound, a Lewis chess piece, and a snow capped Avebury. Tim Sandles is the second of two runners up to receive a…
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On the 2nd Day of Christmas
The competition gave to me … A Lewis chess piece, and a snow capped Avebury. was one of our two runners up to receive a special edition…
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On the 1st Day of Christmas…
The competition gave to me … A snow capped Avebury. Paul Adams is the winner of our #festivearchaeology competition with this excellent photo of Avebury. As the…
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12 Days of Christmas Archaeology Photos
As part of the Archaeology Data Service and Internet Archaeology’s #festivearchaeology Christmas Archaeology Photo Competition, we will be publishing a Christmas themed archaeology photo every day for the 12…
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Christmas Photo Competition
The Archaeology Data Service and Internet Archaeology and are giving away one of our fabulous and rare trowel-shaped USB sticks in December. To be in with a chance…
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Archaeological Drones
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are a ‘disruptive technology’, a technology that forces us to rethink how we do (or used to do) things – from protecting…
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Introducing English Heritage Archaeological Monographs
English Heritage has a long tradition of producing high quality, well illustrated archaeological monographs about key sites and topics of importance to the understanding of the…
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New Guidelines for ADS Depositors
The ADS, supported by funding from the Archives and Records Association, has recently revamped our Guidelines for Depositors. The revamp reviewed the current ADS guidelines on digital archive deposition…
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Digital Data Re-use Award
Internet Archaeology and the Archaeology Data Service have teamed up to provide an Award that recognises the outstanding archaeological research being carried out through the re-use…
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Marie Curie post doctoral fellow Fabrizio Galeazzi joins ADS and the Centre for Digital Heritage
This term ADS are pleased to welcome Fabrizio Galeazzi, a new Marie Curie post doctoral fellow, who will be working with us and the Centre for Digital…
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ADS’s Day of Archaeology
It was the Day of Archaeology last Friday and ADS are a big supporter of the event which raises the profile of ‘what archaeologists really…
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Refereshing the Guidelines for Depositors
The ADS, supported by funding from the Archives and Records Association, has begun a new project to improve digital archive deposition and create new tools for disseminating guidance and…
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Center for Digital Heritage Summer Events
ADS staff will be out in force for the Center for Digital Heritage extravaganza of summer events taking place this July.
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ADS-easy; our first archive is delivered!
We were very pleased to recently release our first archive which was deposited with us via ADS-easy. Oxford Archaeology (South) deposited a small archive of the…
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CAA 2014 Paris
The annual CAA (Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology) conference took place in the impressive surroundings of the Sorbonne. The Archaeology Data Service and Internet Archaeology were…
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Work Experience at ADS
Over the last months of 2013 the ADS was extremely pleased to have hosted Maiju Pohjola, a data management and archiving student, from the National Archives of Finland for a two month…
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Data Seal of Approval: we’ve still got it!
Avid followers of the progress of the ADS recall that in early 2011 we were thrilled to be awarded the internationally recognised Data Seal of Approval…
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The Value and Impact of the Archaeology Data Service: Final Report
The final report of the coequally known ‘ADS IMPACT project’, reported upon previously in this blog, is now available to download from the The Value and…
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Three New Yorkshire Archives
ADS is pleased to announce the release of three new digital archives exploring the history of settlement in Yorkshire, carried out under the auspices of the…
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Open Access Week at ADS and Internet Archaeology
ADS and Internet Archaeology have been taking part in Open Access Week. Open Access Week is an international event now where the academic and research community…
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Archive Usage Statistics
ADS is pleased to announce that it has added a Usage Statistics page to all our archive collections, including Journal Series, Bibliographies and Theses. The usage…
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ADS at the THELMA’s
On Thursday the 20th June, ADS attended the 2013 Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards. The event was attended by the great and good of…
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Two new print publications of the Guides to Good Practice are out now!
The Archaeology Data Service and Digital Antiquity are proud to announce the print publication of two new Guides to Good Practice, Caring for Digital Data in…
