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How do DOIs affect me?
Digital Object Identifiers are clearly very helpful for data preservation and accessibility, but how do they make a difference for those who operate outside of digital…
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URLs and Persistent Identifiers – What’s the Difference? Why DOIs should be cited more than URLs
Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), also commonly known as web addresses, are like house addresses in that they will direct you to a specific location in space…
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Digital Object Identifiers: Linking Effectively
One of our top priorities at the ADS is to make our collections findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. This includes utilising sustainable referencing methods such as…
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CATS Week 2024
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…
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Unpublished Reports pass 80,000
Towards the end of 2023 the ADS Library passed a considerable milestone of 80,000 fieldwork reports. This corpus is now one of the largest collections of…
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ADS reaches 3000 Collections!
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…
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Internet Archaeology and the EAC Symposium proceedings
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…
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Creating an Accessible Archive: New guidance for depositors on creating accessible data
At the ADS, we’ve been thinking a lot about accessibility recently and how we can ensure our collections can be used and enjoyed by as many…
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Social Media Impact
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…
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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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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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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…
