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How do DOIs affect me?
Digital Object Identifiers are clearly very helpful for data preservation and accessibility, but how do they make a difference for those who operate outside of digital…
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Common Helpdesk Queries: Insights from My Time on the Archaeology Data Service Helpdesk
During my time on the Online AcceS to the Index of archaeological investigationS (OASIS) helpdesk, I encountered a wide range of queries from users across the…
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How do DOIs benefit the ADS and other repositories?
All resources archived with the ADS are Open Access and delivered through our website to facilitate re-use by the heritage sector and wider community. But how…
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URLs and Persistent Identifiers – What’s the Difference? Why DOIs should be cited more than URLs
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), also commonly known as web addresses, are like house addresses in that they will direct you to a specific location in space…
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Digital Object Identifiers: Linking Effectively
One of our top priorities at the ADS is to make our collections findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. This includes utilising sustainable referencing methods such as…
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Market analysis and new stakeholder relationships
Following on from our announcement of receiving funding from the University of York’s Partnership for Academic and Commercial Engagement initiative, the ADS has been pleased to…
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The Evolution of the Ingest Process at the Archaeology Data Service – A Presentation for DigiPres North
DigiPres North is a recently established interest group initiated by Bryony Hooper (Digital Preservation Manager at the University of Sheffield) and Dorothy Waugh (Digital Preservation Archivist…
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CATS go 3D printing at YorCreate
As the use of three-dimensional digitisation technologies is adopted more frequently by commercial archeology companies and independent researchers, the number of 3D objects accessioned, ingested, and…
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CATS Week 2024
It has been a busy start to the year at ADS, hence why I now find myself writing about what Curatorial staff did way back in…
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Casting an eye on the new web templates for ADS Archives
As we announced back in March, the ADS is due to launch a series of new features for the ADS Archives templates that provide an accessible…
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Unpublished Reports pass 80,000
Towards the end of 2023 the ADS Library passed a considerable milestone of 80,000 fieldwork reports. This corpus is now one of the largest collections of…
