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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…
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MRD Meeting Nottingham
On 1st-2nd December I represented SWORD-ARM at the Managing Research Data programme kick-off meeting in Nottingham. For an organisation that has been undertaking digital preservation within a…
