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The PUBLICAN project
Internet Archaeology and the ADS are working together on a project concerning the current and ongoing impact of our activities on publication policy and practice (which…
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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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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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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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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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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…
