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 Council for British Archaeology’s Festival of Archaeology launched this year on the 15th July. In celebration of this event, we at the ADS and Internet…
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…
Our sibling publisher, The Internet Archaeology Journal has recently published the latest Europae Archaeologiae Consilium (EAC) symposium proceedings – ‘Archaeology and the Natural Environment’. IA has…
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…
The ADS is an accredited digital repository and data that’s deposited with us is available open access via our archives or library but what actually happens…
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…
This case study describes the background and behind the scenes work that has gone into archiving the Day of Archaeology Project. The final digital archive for…
Several users have been in touch concerned over the future of England’s Rock Art website. Suffice to say that users should rest easy that no data…
In early 2020, it was decided to take a closer look into what impact our social media accounts were having on our archives. Did what we…
Once a year here at the ADS we let all of our cats free for a week into the world. There they do whatever fills their…
By Andrew Reinhard On August 11, 2017, a community of a few hundred people awoke to find their homes and farms destroyed, the air too toxic…
Throughout the month of May, the ADS has been investigating and debunking some of the myths and misconceptions that surround archives, digital preservation and the Archaeology…
Anastasia Akerman here again, as it’s almost the weekend so obviously this was the right time have fun with some of the beautiful images to be…
Over the last few weeks (ether side of Christmas) As part of the HERALD project we’ve been making some progress on the part of the new…
Following the closure of Birmingham Archaeology (BUFAU), a project was initiated to identify and secure important born-digital archival material, and latterly to arrange transfer to the…
To mark the 2017 Open Access week, we thought it would be a good time to introduce the winner of our first Open Access Archaeology fund…
Nine months ago, we launched our Open Access Archaeology Fund. We have sent our little USB trowels all over the globe by way of a ‘thank…
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…
It’s hard to believe, but next week will mark my 10 year anniversary at the ADS. I originally started on a one-year contract to oversee the archiving of…
Tim Evans In June 2013 I wrote the first in what I planned to be a two part blog describing my work on the Rural Settlement of Roman…
Re-posted from Day of Archaeology Two years after posting about my work on the Silbury Hill digital archive, in ‘AN ADS DAY OF ARCHAEOLOGY’, and I’m still busy…
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…
English Heritage has a long tradition of producing high quality, well illustrated archaeological monographs about key sites and topics of importance to the understanding of the…
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…
With the release last year of two more Anglo-Saxon archives, ‘A Corpus of Early Anglo-Saxon Buckets’ and ‘Anglo-Saxon Grave Goods of the 6th and 7th Centuries AD:…
ADS is pleased to announce the release of three new digital archives exploring the history of settlement in Yorkshire, carried out under the auspices of the…
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…
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…
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…
This is the first of a two-part blog – the second will be a more detailed overview of the technologies involved in the digital dissemination –…
