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CATs Assemble: Insights from our 2025 Archiving Strategy Week
Last week, ADS CATS (Curatorial and Technical Staff) gathered for our annual strategy week; a dedicated time to focus on archival workflows and how we preserve…
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Common Helpdesk Queries: Insights from My Time on the Archaeology Data Service Helpdesk
During my time on the Online AcceS to the Index of archaeological investigationS (OASIS) helpdesk, I encountered a wide range of queries from users across the…
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Unpublished Reports pass 80,000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 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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Say Goodbye to OASIS Images!
As many readers will be aware the a new OASIS system (OASIS V) is now in place. In preparation for this we have taken the decision…
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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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OASIS and Archives
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…
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HERALD Update
Over the summer holiday period we’ve continued to work away at trying to make sense of the results of the range of surveys we undertook earlier…
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HERALD: a new beginning for OASIS
We all know that the historic environment sector has undergone a great degree of upheaval over the last few years as a result of the recession-busting moves by…
