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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…
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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…
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New Study on the Impact of the ADS
For more than fifteen years the ADS has been working to serve its users, both by acting as a long-term repository for valuable archaeological data and…
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The dark art of costing for digital preservation
For as long as the ADS has existed we have made a charge to some parts of the archaeological sector for the archiving and dissemination services…
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SWORD-ARM: the benefits
While undertaking the SWORDARM project work, all the time wondering ‘if we build it, will they come’, we have had time to reflect on what we…
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Automated ingest and the SWORD-ARM project: the project aims
The growing dependence on digital data within traditional research environments, and increasingly within the commercial sector of archaeological practice, has seen an associated increase in awareness…
