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ADS Goes to iPres 2024 in Ghent
This year’s edition of the International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPres 2024) was held between Monday 16th and Friday 20th September 2024 in Ghent, Belgium. Hosted…
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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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How do DOIs benefit the ADS and other repositories?
All resources archived with the ADS are Open Access and delivered through our website to facilitate re-use by the heritage sector and wider community. But how…
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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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Market analysis and new stakeholder relationships
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…
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The Evolution of the Ingest Process at the Archaeology Data Service – A Presentation for DigiPres North
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…
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CATS go 3D printing at YorCreate
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…
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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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Casting an eye on the new web templates for ADS Archives
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…
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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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CAA UK – November 2023
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…
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ADS Priorities for 2023/2024
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…
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My first few months with the ADS – Marco Brunello
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…
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Castles, Cremations, Ports and Pillboxes: Archives Week August 2023
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…
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Archiving Day of Archaeology (2011-2017)
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…
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The future for England’s Rock Art
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…
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More ‘exam’ success! Certification and membership of the ISC- World Data System (WDS)
Earlier in the year we reported on a successful outcome from CoreTrustSeal (CSA) certification application, becoming the fifth repository in the UK to achieve this important…
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We passed! Great result from CoreTrustSeal accreditation
As many of you will have seen on social media last month, it is with great pleasure that the ADS can announce that it has been…
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I hit save so it’s preserved right?
No preservation format is perfect. While physical mediums such as paper can last centuries under proper conditions, it is that qualifier that is key to its…
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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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The ADS Grey Literature Library reaches a milestone!
The ADS Library now holds over 50,000 downloadable grey literature reports!Thank you to all the archivists who have worked hard preserving, archiving and disseminating these files and to all of our depositors who continue to make our Grey Literature Collections such a rich resource!
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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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A decade in data
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…
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The (DOC)X-files
The following blog is simply a musing on our historic approaches to archiving formatted text files, prompted by a user enquiry into “best formats” for preservation…
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DAI IANUS visits the ADS!
ADS was pleased to recently be the host to three Data Curators from a project called IANUS as part of the ARIADNE project. ADS spent two…
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OUT NOW: Dendrochronological Data in Archaeology
For a great deal of human history, wood has been an important construction material and remnants of ancient wood are preserved to this day in archaeological…
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Coming Soon: Dendrochronological Data in Archaeology Guide to Good Practice!
ADS and the Digital Collaboratory for Cultural Dendrochronology are pleased to announce that a new Guide to Good Practice on Dendrochronological Data in Archaeology will be available soon.…
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Archaeological Drones
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are a ‘disruptive technology’, a technology that forces us to rethink how we do (or used to do) things – from protecting…
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The ADS goes to the Houses of Parliament
The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) hosted an exhibition in the Members’ Dining Room in the House of Commons on Tuesday (15th July) to…
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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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Persistence in Preservation and Publication of Data
To recognise the effort that authors make in order to deposit digital data and to get academic credit for that effort, Internet Archaeology (IA) and the…
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Buckets of Anglo-Saxon Data
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:…
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The Silbury Hill Archive: the light at the end of the tunnel.
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 Hill…
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Our 2nd SPRUCE digital preservation mash-up – London
As my former colleague Jen Mitcham discovered a SPRUCE Mash-up is a very productive thing to be involved in. This time I took along a collection…
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ADS at the THELMA’s
On Thursday the 20th June, ADS attended the 2013 Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards. The event was attended by the great and good of…
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Felix Schäfer from IANUS visits ADS
Over the past two weeks the ADS has been extremely pleased to have hosted Felix Schäfer from IANUS for a training placement as part of the…
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SPRUCE Hackathon – File Characterisation
The other week I had the opportunity to participate in the SPRUCE Hackathon hosted by Leeds University. Hackathons are an opportunity for developers to get together and…
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ReACTing to digital archive requirements.
In April this year our former colleague, Jen Mitcham, attended the inaugural SPRUCE digital preservation mash-up in Glasgow (16th-18 April 2012), an event organised by…
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PDF, or PDF/A: that is the question
The Portable Document Format (PDF) remains the most popular and de facto format for the sharing of printable documents across the web. As such the PDF…
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Migrating Data: The Council for British Archaeology Research Reports
At the Archaeology Data Service we know that in order to keep files safe and accessible long into the future, we need to migrate or refresh…
