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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This year’s CAAUK conference, organised by the British chapter of CAA (Computer Application & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology), was held in Edinburgh on Friday 24th and…
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…
Those of you who have visited the ADS offices will know we are very fortunate to be part of the Department of Archaeology at the University…
Editor Intro: This week’s blog post is written by Richard Paxford, an ADS digital archives assistant who recently joined us in York. Below Richard writes about…
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…
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…
The ADS team is delighted to announce the recent release of our 3000th data collection! This milestone represents significant growth in the number of Collections deposited…
The annual Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) Conference was held this year from 3rd to 6th of April in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2023 marked…
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’…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…