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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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Unlocking Archaeological Data: Exploring New Ways to Access ADS Collections via APIs
As archaeological research continues to evolve, the need for efficient access to digital resources has never been greater. At the ADS, we’re constantly looking for ways…
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Evaluating evaluation trenching: reengaging with a PhD project using the ADS and cutting-edge data science.
This is a guest post written by Richard Higham. Richard is a Research fellow in the UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage. His professional expertise spans commercial…
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Love Data Week – Whose (archaeological) data Is It, Anyway?
This week’s blog post comes in the midst of International Love Data Week ♥️! This year’s theme is ‘Whose Data Is It, Anyway?’. This theme asks…
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My First Few Months with the ADS – Digital vs Physical Archives
It has been two months since I started as a digital archives assistant at the ADS. This time has focused on getting to grips with how…
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My First Few Months at the ADS
It’s been three months since I started at the ADS as a Digital Archives Assistant, and I’ve already had the pleasure of undertaking quite a varied…
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Large digital cemetery archives: Good practice for depositors and archivists
Content warning: This blog post contains images of human remains. During my MSc in Digital Archaeology at the University of York in 2022, I decided that…
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Minting DOIs and the DataCite Commons
This blog post in our series takes a deeper dive into how we create DOIs for the ADS collections by a process known as ‘minting’, as…
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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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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…
