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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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CONNECTED: Connecting trusted Arts and Humanities data repositories
CONNECTED: Connecting trusted Arts and Humanities data repositories is a newly funded activity, supported by AHRC. It is led by the British Library, with the Archaeology…
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The Redesign Continues
Hello all, and thank you very much for your feedback to our website redesign survey, they have been really helpful in the redesigning of the website.…
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ADS Homepage Redesign
Here at the Archaeology Data Service, we believe that the way in which we connect to the past truly matters, and as a result, we are…
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Wonders of the ADS
Journey into the archive with our new online gallery The Wonders of the ADS, is a digital exhibition dedicated to highlighting the outstanding digital data held in the…
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New Look Website
The ADS are pleased to announce that the ADS Library will be moving out of its Beta phase and go Live on Tuesday 16th January. Concurrently…
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The PUBLICAN project
Internet Archaeology and the ADS are working together on a project concerning the current and ongoing impact of our activities on publication policy and practice (which…
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Rural Settlement of Roman Britain: Salute!
In December of last year (2016), I completed the final stage of the digital archive and dissemination for the The Rural Settlement of Roman Britain project. The first…
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ArchAIDE: thinking spatially
Over the past few months Holly and Myself have been working on ArchAIDE, an EU funded project which aims to create a new system for the automatic…
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Built Legacy: Preserving the Results of Historic Building Investigations
Today we release the findings of our Built Legacy Project (see ADS blog April 2016). The full report can be downloaded here. It’s long been known that…
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Built Legacy: Preserving Historic Buildings Data
By Angela Creswick Responding to concern that there may be gaps in the recording of investigations and sustainable archiving of digital data and reports on standing buildings, the ADS…
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NEARCH artist-in-residence Leyla Cárdenas comes to York
From 29 October to 6 November, the ADS and the Department of Archaeology at the University of York was delighted to welcome Leyla Cárdenas Campos and her partner…
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OUT NOW: Dendrochronological Data in Archaeology
For a great deal of human history, wood has been an important construction material and remnants of ancient wood are preserved to this day in archaeological…
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Coming Soon: Dendrochronological Data in Archaeology Guide to Good Practice!
ADS and the Digital Collaboratory for Cultural Dendrochronology are pleased to announce that a new Guide to Good Practice on Dendrochronological Data in Archaeology will be available soon.…
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You(r) Archaeology – portraying the past competition
What is archaeology? An adventure? A pain in the neck? The appeal of the past? The magic of marvelous sites? A dusty museum? Probably all of…
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Roman Rural Settlement at the ADS
Since April 2012 I have been fortunate enough to be the ADS lead in the Roman Rural Settlement of Britain project, undertaken by Mike Fulford and a small team…
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All Three of our European Projects are in Full Swing!
The ADS is currently a partner in three major European projects, and all are well on their way. We have passed the midpoints for the three-year Local…
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ADS 3D Viewer
ADS 3D Viewer is a two year project funded under the ‘Marie Curie Actions’ Seventh Framework Programme, and benefits from the collaboration with the Italian Visual…
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DADAISM Project
The DADAISM project brings together researchers from the diverse fields of archaeology, human computer interaction, image processing, image search and retrieval, and text mining to create…
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ADS welcomes the NEARCH partners to York!
ADS was delighted to host the NEARCH partners on 11-12 December, 2014 for both a plenary meeting, and the first of the NEARCH scientific sessions. As…
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NEARCH Artist in Residence
As part of the NEARCH project a call for proposals was published in spring 2014 by the Paris CENTQUATRE– and Jan van Eyck Academie for 10 artist residencies. Nearly 500…
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Archaeological Drones
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are a ‘disruptive technology’, a technology that forces us to rethink how we do (or used to do) things – from protecting…
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HERALD Update
Over the summer holiday period we’ve continued to work away at trying to make sense of the results of the range of surveys we undertook earlier…
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Marie Curie post doctoral fellow Fabrizio Galeazzi joins ADS and the Centre for Digital Heritage
This term ADS are pleased to welcome Fabrizio Galeazzi, a new Marie Curie post doctoral fellow, who will be working with us and the Centre for Digital…
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HERALD: a new beginning for OASIS
We all know that the historic environment sector has undergone a great degree of upheaval over the last few years as a result of the recession-busting moves by…
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SENESCHAL Vocabularies: Implementation
With the SENESCHAL project finally wrapped up, we thought it would be good to do a final post on how we implemented the SENESCHAL vocabularies into…
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LoCloud Picking Up Steam!
The LoCloud project has been up and running for about six months now, and we’ve just finished a productive and enjoyable plenary meeting in London. The…
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Archaeology Britain Mobile App Development
About a year ago the ADS was approached by the British Library (BL) about joining up to develop an mobile app together. A good relationship had…
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European Projects Update
It is a busy and exciting time for European research at the ADS! Within the last six months, we have started three new projects; each of…
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One Pitfall of a Linked Open Data World
At the 7th World Archaeological Congress in Jordan, Martin Doerr raised a concern about the Linked Open Data world that was being advocated in our session.…
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SENESCHAL Vocabularies: value to the ADS
The release of the SENESCHAL vocabularies as Linked Open Data is a very exciting development for practitioners of archaeological linked data. This is the first step…
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Our 2nd SPRUCE digital preservation mash-up – London
As my former colleague Jen Mitcham discovered a SPRUCE Mash-up is a very productive thing to be involved in. This time I took along a collection…
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Two new print publications of the Guides to Good Practice are out now!
The Archaeology Data Service and Digital Antiquity are proud to announce the print publication of two new Guides to Good Practice, Caring for Digital Data in…
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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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ReACTing to digital archive requirements.
In April this year our former colleague, Jen Mitcham, attended the inaugural SPRUCE digital preservation mash-up in Glasgow (16th-18 April 2012), an event organised by…
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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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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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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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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…
