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Casting an eye on the new web templates for ADS Archives
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…
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Unpublished Reports pass 80,000
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…
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ADS Priorities for 2023/2024
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…
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ADS reaches 3000 Collections!
The ADS team is delighted to announce the recent release of our 3000th data collection! This milestone represents significant growth in the number of Collections deposited…
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CONNECTED: Connecting trusted Arts and Humanities data repositories
CONNECTED: Connecting trusted Arts and Humanities data repositories is a newly funded activity, supported by AHRC. It is led by the British Library, with the Archaeology…
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New roles and new faces at the ADS
Some readers will have seen two new job adverts for working at the ADS, and so I thought it would be useful to provide a general…
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Archiving Day of Archaeology (2011-2017)
This case study describes the background and behind the scenes work that has gone into archiving the Day of Archaeology Project. The final digital archive for…
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The future for England’s Rock Art
Several users have been in touch concerned over the future of England’s Rock Art website. Suffice to say that users should rest easy that no data…
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Archaeology on Furlow: attitudes and expectations to online resources
This week my colleague (Teagan Zoldoske) flagged up the following report: Wiseman, R., and Ronn, P. (2020). Archaeology on Furlough: Accessing Archaeological Information Online: A Survey of Volunteers’ Experiences. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.54876…
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Linking the virtuous circles: Citation and Tracking Re-use.
The ADS has (for nearly 25 years!) been providing free access to resources deposited with us. We put them online in open/accessible formats, people use them,…
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Changes to the ADS Library
Since a Beta release back in March 2017 we’ve received a great deal of feedback on the ADS Library application. We know it’s used intensively, with…
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IWD2020
The strength of the ADS has always been the people who work here. As a team, we accomplish a lot. Out of the existing cohort of…
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The ADS Grey Literature Library reaches a milestone!
The ADS Library now holds over 50,000 downloadable grey literature reports!Thank you to all the archivists who have worked hard preserving, archiving and disseminating these files and to all of our depositors who continue to make our Grey Literature Collections such a rich resource!
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OASIS and Archives
Over the last few weeks (ether side of Christmas) As part of the HERALD project we’ve been making some progress on the part of the new…
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in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate
As it’s World Digital Preservation Day I thought I’d finished the following blog about our work with managing the digital objects within our collection. Like most…
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Space is the Place (part I)
This is the first part of a (much delayed) series of blogs investigating the storage requirements of the ADS. This began way back in late 2016/early…
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Rural Settlement of Roman Britain: Salute!
In December of last year (2016), I completed the final stage of the digital archive and dissemination for the The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain project. The first…
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ArchAIDE: thinking spatially
Over the past few months Holly and Myself have been working on ArchAIDE, an EU funded project which aims to create a new system for the automatic…
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Reflections on CHNT 2016
Back in November (16th-18th), I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in the Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT) conference in Vienna. As detailed…
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Looking forward to CHNT Vienna
Next month, the Archaeology Data Service (ADS) are contributing to an exciting session at the CHNT conference in Vienna: Preservation and re-use of digital archaeological research data…
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A decade in data
It’s hard to believe, but next week will mark my 10 year anniversary at the ADS. I originally started on a one-year contract to oversee the archiving of…
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The (DOC)X-files
The following blog is simply a musing on our historic approaches to archiving formatted text files, prompted by a user enquiry into “best formats” for preservation…
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The dark valley: notes from the ADS library
Over a year and a half ago I wrote a short blog on the mechanics of the ADS grey literature library, going in to (what I considered)…
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Rural Settlement of Roman Britain
Tim Evans In June 2013 I wrote the first in what I planned to be a two part blog describing my work on the Rural Settlement of Roman…
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Roman Rural Settlement at the ADS
Since April 2012 I have been fortunate enough to be the ADS lead in the Roman Rural Settlement of Britain project, undertaken by Mike Fulford and a small team…
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Persistence in Preservation and Publication of Data
To recognise the effort that authors make in order to deposit digital data and to get academic credit for that effort, Internet Archaeology (IA) and the…
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HERALD: a new beginning for OASIS
We all know that the historic environment sector has undergone a great degree of upheaval over the last few years as a result of the recession-busting moves by…
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Topping Up your Credit (or how you can learn to stop worrying and love your data)
“Data that is loved tends to survive” (Kurt Bollacker, Data Scientist) We all want better ways to make research data available and to give more credit…
