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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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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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About us – a new and improved section of the ADS website
Have you always wanted to learn more about the team behind the ADS and what they do? Well our new website has a new dedicated ‘About’…
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The exciting world of Metadata
Metadata. Something extremely important to the long-term health and reuse of data and yet the mere mention of it can cause people to shut off and…
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I hit save so it’s preserved right?
No preservation format is perfect. While physical mediums such as paper can last centuries under proper conditions, it is that qualifier that is key to its…
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ADS Business Process Review
In early 2018, as part of the ADS strategic plan to maintain and develop our world-leading position in digital preservation and Open Access publishing in Archaeology,…
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New Guidelines for ADS Depositors
The ADS, supported by funding from the Archives and Records Association, has recently revamped our Guidelines for Depositors. The revamp reviewed the current ADS guidelines on digital archive deposition…
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Refereshing the Guidelines for Depositors
The ADS, supported by funding from the Archives and Records Association, has begun a new project to improve digital archive deposition and create new tools for disseminating guidance and…
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Topping Up your Credit (or how you can learn to stop worrying and love your data)
“Data that is loved tends to survive” (Kurt Bollacker, Data Scientist) We all want better ways to make research data available and to give more credit…
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Archive Usage Statistics
ADS is pleased to announce that it has added a Usage Statistics page to all our archive collections, including Journal Series, Bibliographies and Theses. The usage…
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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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Jenny Ryder’s Day of Archaeology at the ADS: a Silbury Hill update
Here it is, my Day of Archaeology 2013 and after a routine check of my emails and the daily news I’m ready to begin! I am…
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Neil Gevaux’s Day of Archaeology at the ADS and Internet Archaeology
Working at the ADS & Internet Archaeology I have been working at the University of York since November 2012, as the holder of a one-year IFA/HLF…
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The Silbury Hill Archive: the light at the end of the tunnel.
This is the first of a two-part blog reporting on the progress of my work in preparing the digital data from the English Heritage Silbury Hill…
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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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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…
