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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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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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My First Month at the ADS
At the best of times starting a new job can be a nerve-racking experience. So starting a new job during a pandemic should therefore be worse,…
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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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New roles and new faces at the ADS
Some readers will have seen two new job adverts for working at the ADS, and so I thought it would be useful to provide a general…
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ADS all over the world
Many moons ago, the ADS decided that it was going to try and increase its social media presence. To this end, we started tweeting, and posting,…
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Remembering Tony Austin
Many friends of ADS will remember Tony Austin, who sadly died on 9 April 2019, aged 69. Tony was a key figure at the ADS during…
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My first Six Weeks as a Digital Archives Assistant
It’s been six weeks since I started working at the Archaeology Data Service and went down the rabbit hole and into a world of checksums, AIPs,…
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Headed off into uncharted waters: My first month at the ADS
Hello all! Teagan here to tell you about my first exciting month at the ADS. First a bit about myself. Yes, that is a ship on…
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in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate
As it’s World Digital Preservation Day I thought I’d finished the following blog about our work with managing the digital objects within our collection. Like most…
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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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All change at ADS
It’s with great regret that at the end of February 2015 we said goodbye to Catherine Hardman, ADS Deputy Director and Collections Development Manager. Catherine had…
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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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ADS’s Day of Archaeology
It was the Day of Archaeology last Friday and ADS are a big supporter of the event which raises the profile of ‘what archaeologists really…
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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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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…
