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ADS Priorities for 2023/2024
The work of the ADS is overseen by a Management Committee made up of representatives of key stakeholders, funders, and user communities. The Committee meets once…
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My first few months with the ADS – Marco Brunello
Editor Intro: This week’s blog post is written by Marco Brunello, an ADS Digital Archives Assistant who recently joined us in York. Below Marco talks about…
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Castles, Cremations, Ports and Pillboxes: Archives Week August 2023
Last month, our team of archivists were busy with another ‘Archives Sprint’, a week dedicated to processing digital archives deposited through our website’s ADS-easy interface. Over…
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Help and Guidance – more new features on the ADS website
The redesign of the ADS website includes a dedicated ‘Help and Guidance’ section that amalgamates all of the detailed information and instructions that the ADS produces…
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Welcome to the new ADS website!
We at the ADS are excited to announce the launch of the new ADS website! The new website will go live at 8am on Monday 6th…
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First month with the Archaeology Data Service
I’m Becky Hirst and I started working as a Digital Archives Assistant with the Archaeology Data Service in August 2021. Since completing Undergraduate and Postgraduate studies…
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My First Month as a Digital Archives Assistant
Hello! I’m Evelyn, and I started my role as a Digital Archives Assistant for the Archaeology Data Service at the beginning of August. Having previously worked…
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Say Goodbye to OASIS Images!
As many readers will be aware the a new OASIS system (OASIS V) is now in place. In preparation for this we have taken the decision…
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CH-CH-CH-CH-Changes: Improvements to our ADS-Easy and Oasis Images Services
Over the last few months, ADS beavers have been busy in the background making much needed updated and improvements to our electronic submissions systems.…
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ADS-easy; our first archive is delivered!
We were very pleased to recently release our first archive which was deposited with us via ADS-easy. Oxford Archaeology (South) deposited a small archive of the…
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ADS easy released in Beta
After a summer-long period of internal testing, the ADS-easy system has been linked into the main ADS site. So we are now moving into a phase…
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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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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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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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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…
