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Keep Calm and Archive On-line
Catherine and Ray from the SWORD-ARM project were amongst ADS staff who attended the Institute for Archaeologists (IfA) annual conference last week at the Aston Conference…
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ADS-‘not-so’-easy?
I’ve just been to the JISC Managing Research Data Programme Workshop in Birmingham which focussed on, amongst other things, the challenges the different projects in the…
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SPRUCE Hackathon – File Characterisation
The other week I had the opportunity to participate in the SPRUCE Hackathon hosted by Leeds University. Hackathons are an opportunity for developers to get together and…
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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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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…
