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ADS wins DPC Decennial Award
As part of its tenth anniversary celebrations, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) awarded its Decennial Award, for an outstanding contribution to digital preservation, to the Archaeology…
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Impact Project Update
The Impact of the Archaeology Data Service: a study and methods for enhancing sustainability We are now just over half-way through the project that commenced in…
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ReACTing to digital archive requirements.
In April this year our former colleague, Jen Mitcham, attended the inaugural SPRUCE digital preservation mash-up in Glasgow (16th-18 April 2012), an event organised by…
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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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DPC Decennial Award Nomination: ADS short listed amongst esteemed company
The announcement of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) awards shortlist is always greeted with some excitement the digital community, but this year’s list was particularly well…
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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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JISC-British Library data citation workshop
A summary of the July 6th JISC-British Library workshop on “metadata for effective data citation” by Caroline Wilkinson of the British Libraray is now up on…
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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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PDF, or PDF/A: that is the question
The Portable Document Format (PDF) remains the most popular and de facto format for the sharing of printable documents across the web. As such the PDF…
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Migrating Data: The Council for British Archaeology Research Reports
At the Archaeology Data Service we know that in order to keep files safe and accessible long into the future, we need to migrate or refresh…
