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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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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Unpublished Reports pass 80,000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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One big jigsaw: Challenges in disseminating 3D data from The Former Curzon Street Station Yard
High Speed Two’s groundbreaking archaeology programme is currently not just Europe’s largest excavation but also a treasure trove of insights into the lives that shaped modern…
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ADS in Amsterdam: CAA Conference 2023
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…
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Help and Guidance – more new features on the ADS website
The redesign of the ADS website includes a dedicated ‘Help and Guidance’ section that amalgamates all of the detailed information and instructions that the ADS produces…
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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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Archaeology on Furlow: attitudes and expectations to online resources
This week my colleague (Teagan Zoldoske) flagged up the following report: Wiseman, R., and Ronn, P. (2020). Archaeology on Furlough: Accessing Archaeological Information Online: A Survey of Volunteers’ Experiences. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.54876…
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The exciting world of Metadata
Metadata. Something extremely important to the long-term health and reuse of data and yet the mere mention of it can cause people to shut off and…
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Linking the virtuous circles: Citation and Tracking Re-use.
The ADS has (for nearly 25 years!) been providing free access to resources deposited with us. We put them online in open/accessible formats, people use them,…
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‘It Makes You Feel Like You Are Working as a Real Scientist’
Using data provided by the ADS for digital archaeological teaching and learning at the University of Vienna Guest Post By: Dominik Hagmann & Fabiola Heynen Dominik…
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Exploring the Re-use of ADS Data: Guest Post Series
The ADS has been interested in the re-use of the data in our archive for as long as the ADS has been preserving data. Providing access…
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The Use of Archived 3D Data Part 3: Final Thoughts and Recommendations
This blog post is the last in a series I (Michaela Mauriello) have published following my investigations into the use and re-use of 3D data held…
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The Use and Re-use of 3D Data from the ADS Archive
Over the past year I, (Michaela Mauriello) have been doing a work placement with the ADS as part of my MSc degree at the University of…
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The Use of Archived 3D Data Part 2: User survey
Hi Michaela Mauriello here, this is the second post in my blog series on the use and re-use of 3D data from the ADS archive. Following the…
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The Use of Archived 3D Data Part 1: Web Statistics and Data Citation Analysis
Hello I am Michaela Mauriello and this is the first post in a three part blog series on my investigations into the use and re-use of…
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Public Use and Interest of 3D Data in the ADS
Over the last decade, archaeological 3D data has become more accessible to the public. There are online archives, similar to the ADS, where users can access…
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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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We have a winner! Digital Data Reuse Award 2015
Internet Archaeology and the Archaeology Data Service are pleased to announce the winner of our 2015 Digital Data Reuse Award. The award was instigated to recognise the…
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Digital Data Re-use Award 2015
Internet Archaeology and the Archaeology Data Service have teamed up to provide an Award that recognises the outstanding work being carried out through the re-use of digital…
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Digital Data Re-use Award
Internet Archaeology and the Archaeology Data Service have teamed up to provide an Award that recognises the outstanding archaeological research being carried out through the re-use…
