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The ADS Office Refurb!
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…
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Does anyone have a map?
If there is one thing that I really enjoy, it’s exploring data spatially. I really enjoy being able to look at a map and see where…
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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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CH-CH-CH-CH-Changes: Improvements to our ADS-Easy and Oasis Images Services
Over the last few months, ADS beavers have been busy in the background making much needed updated and improvements to our electronic submissions systems.…
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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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ADS Library: BETA version now online!
The ADS, Historic England and the Council for British Archaeology are pleased to announce the beta release of ADS Library. Weaving a web of references. The…
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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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Keeping our Data Consistent
The consistency and integrity of data is essential for any digital archive. Therefore, for the past few months we have been running a series of programs…
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ADS-easy; our first archive is delivered!
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…
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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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Exposing the ADS… to Google
An online presence is just the tip of the ADS iceberg, but as such we still rely on search engines to direct traffic to our archived…
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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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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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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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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: 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…
