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I.1 National organisations#

Archaeology Data Service

Association of Local Government Archaeological Officers

Audit Commission

Best value

CPA

Council for British Archaeology

Council for Scottish Archaeology

Dept for Communities and Local Government

Dept for Culture, Media and Sport

Scottish Government

Welsh Government

English Heritage

Historic Scotland

Cadw

Heirnet consultancy, http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/heirnet/index.cfm

Heritage Lottery Fund

Local Government Association

Welsh Local Government Association

Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA)

Museums Association

Collections Trust

National Monuments Record

National Monuments Record of Scotland

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales

I.2 Training and professional development#

ADS Guide to Good Practice for Excavation and Fieldwork Archives

ADS: training in IT for archaeologists

The Archaeology Training Forum

The Campaign for Learning

CBA Briefing: training courses, etc

Creative and Cultural Skills

Cultural Heritage National Training Organisation
(Please note that the CHNTO no longer exists as an organization but its web site archive is still accessible)

Data Standards Unit

exeGesIS SDM Ltd

Harvard Business School

HELM: Information and training to help decision makers.

IFA, http://www.archaeologists.net/modules/content/index.php?page=41: training and career development

IFA: CPD page Improvement and Development Agency

Investors in People

Investors in People (UK)

National occupational standards in Archaeological Practice

Learning and skills council

Profiling the profession

Training in Professional Archaeology

TUC Learning Services

Union Learning Fund

I.3 Information technology and the World Wide Web#

Anti-virus (general information)

Brief history of the internet

The CD Information Center

Data recovery example

Firewalls

GFS Back-up Strategy

HEIRPORT

Intranets

IT security warning service

McAfee (virus protection software)

MessageLabs (secure content management services)

PKZIP

Proxy servers

Site design: RNIB

Symantec ('Antivirus Research Center')

Web Accessibility initiative

Web Portals

What is FTP and here

WinZip

World Wide Web (W3C) Consortium

Z39.50 for all

I.5 GIS#

ADS GIS Guide to Good Practice

AHDS metadata advice

Australian and New Zealand Land Information Council

Getmapping®

Ordnance Survey PAI programme

GiGateway website (formerly NGDF)]

Gigateway metadata standards

IGGI website

MIDAS mapped data

Z39.50

I.6 Disaster control plans#

Disaster control-plan template

Disaster Management Planning for Archaeological Archives IFA/AAF

Newcastle University Library

I.7 Regional organisations and HERs#

ADSonline catalogue ArchSearch

Birmingham Archaeology Service

Cheshire SMR Archaeology home page
SMRonline

Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust

Hampshire

Heritage Gateway (contact details for English HERs)

Humber Archaeology Partnership

Shropshire archaeology service

Suffolk Archaeology Service

West Yorkshire Archaeology Service

Winchester SMR

Worcestershire Archaeology Service

York City archaeology HER

I.8 Thematic recording projects#

Airfield Research Group

Archaeological Investigations Project

Association for Industrial Archaeology

The Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics

British Sundial Society

Communications Heritage Forum

Corpus of Roman Mosaics

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture

Defence of Britain Project

The Folly Fellowship

Garden History Society

Historical Metallurgy Society

Images of England Project

National Inventory of War Memorials

National Piers Society

Portable Antiquities Scheme

Public Monuments & Sculpture Assn

Survey of the Jewish Built Heritage

Tiles & Architectural Ceramics Society

UK Database for Historic Parks and Gardens

Details of these and other projects can be found on the HEIRNET register

I.9 Storage and digital archiving#

ADS Guide to Good Practice for Excavation and Fieldwork Archives

MLA: Museums Libraries and Archives Council

MGC: publications

Museum Net (products & services)

RCAHMS digital archives guidelines

• RCAHMS digital archiving implementation strategy

I.10 Access to information#

I.10.1 Equality#

Campaign for Clear English redirects to direct.gov pages http://www.direct.gov.uk/DisabledPeople/fs/en
for DDA see http://www.direct.gov.uk/DisabledPeople/RightsAndObligations/YourRights/YourRightsArticles/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4001068&chk=eazXEG

Language Line (Telephone Translation Service)

RNID Typetalk servicefor those using ‘text’ phones (or Minicom) http://www.typetalk.org/

Royal National Institute for the Blind

Royal National Institute for the Deaf

I.10.2 Copyright#

Deposit license

Copyright scenarios

Tracking copyright holders

I.10.3 Freedom of Information#

Information Commissioner’s Office

Scottish Information Commissioner

Differences between the Freedom of Information Act and the Environmental Information Regulations

I.10.4 Education#

Accessing Scotland’s Past

Inspiring Learning for All

Learning and Teaching Scotland

National Curriculum

People’s Network

Scottish Museums Council

I.10.5 Information gateways/portals#

ArchSearch

Heritage Gateway

NMRS Canmore

Pastmap

Extended National Database for Wale

I.10.6 National databases#

ArchSearch

British & Irish archaeological bibliography

Images of England

CARN

COFLEIN

CUCAP

The Extended National Database for Wales (END)

Great Britain Historical GIS Project

HLC Wales Publication of Historic Landscapes

LB Online

MAGIC

NMR England

Pastmap

PastScape

RCAHMS HLA

Wales Historic Landscapes Register

Scotland historical maps available online on the National Library of Scotland.

Scottish Palaeoenvironmental archive

SCRAN