I Useful websites#
(checked between December 1st and 22nd 2006). To report a broken link please click here
I.1 National organisations#
Archaeology Data Service
Association of Local Government Archaeological Officers
Council for British Archaeology
Council for Scottish Archaeology
Dept for Communities and Local Government
Dept for Culture, Media and Sport
Heirnet consultancy, http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/heirnet/index.cfm
Welsh Local Government Association
Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA)
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
CBA Briefing: training courses, etc
CBA Briefing: training courses, etc
Cultural Heritage National Training Organisation
(Please note that the CHNTO no longer exists as an organization but its web site archive is still accessible)
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
National occupational standards in Archaeological Practice
Training in Professional Archaeology
I.3 Information technology and the World Wide Web#
Anti-virus (general information)
McAfee (virus protection software)
MessageLabs (secure content management services)
Symantec ('Antivirus Research Center')
What is FTP and here
World Wide Web (W3C) Consortium
I.5 GIS#
ADS GIS Guide to Good Practice
AHDS metadata advice (formerly NGDF)
Disaster Management Planning for Archaeological Archives IFA/AAF
I.7 Regional organisations and HERs#
ADSonline catalogue ArchSearch
Birmingham Archaeology Service
Cheshire SMR Archaeology home page
SMRonline
Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust
Heritage Gateway (contact details for English HERs)
Humber Archaeology Partnership
Shropshire archaeology service
West Yorkshire Archaeology Service
Worcestershire Archaeology Service
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
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture
National Inventory of War Memorials
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
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: http://www.ahds.ac.uk/archaeology/depositing/index.htm
Copyright scenarios http://www.bl.uk/services/information/copyrightfaq.html
Tracking copyright holders http://www.booktrust.org.uk/about/faqs.php
I.10.3 Freedom of Information
Information Commissioner’s Office http://www.ico.gov.uk/
Scottish Information Commissioner http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/
Differences between the Freedom of Information Act and the Environmental Information Regulations
http://lawzone.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=112586
I.10.4 Education
Accessing Scotland’s Past www.accessingscotlandspast.org.uk.
Inspiring Learning for All www.inspiringlearningforall.gov.uk
Learning and Teaching Scotland http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/
National Curriculum http://www.nc.uk.net/
People’s Network http://www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/
Scottish Museums Council http://www.scottishmuseums.org.uk/
I.10.5 Information gateways/portals
ArchSearch http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/
Heritage Gateway www.heritagegateway.org.uk
NMRS Canmore www.rcahms.gov.uk
Pastmap http://www.pastmap.org
Extended National Database for Wales http://www.rcahmw.org.uk/nmrw/extdbs.shtml
I.10.6 National databases
ArchSearch http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/collections.cfm
British & Irish archaeological bibliography http://www.biab.ac.uk
Images of England (http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/
CARN http://www.rcahmw.org.uk/data/carn.shtml
COFLEIN http://www.coflein.gov.uk/
CUCAP)(http://venus.uflm.cam.ac.uk/
The Extended National Database for Wales (END). http://www.rcahmw.org.uk/nmrw/extdbs.shtml
Great Britain Historical GIS Project http://hds.essex.ac.uk/gbh.asp
HLC Wales Publication of Historic Landscapes http://www.cadw.wales.gov.uk/upload/resourcepool/Historic%20Landscapes9277.pdf
LB Online http://lbonline.english-heritage.org.uk/
MAGIC http://www.magic.gov.uk
NMR England http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/
Pastmap http://jura.rcahms.gov.uk/PASTMAP/start.jsp
PastScape http://www.pastscape.org/homepage
RCAHMS HLA http://jura.rcahms.gov.uk/HLA/start.jsp
Wales Historic Landscapes Register; http://www.ccw.gov.uk/Generalinfo/index.cfm?Action=ResourceMore&ResourceID=65&Subject=Landscape
Scotland historical maps available online on the National Library of Scotland http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/index.html.
Scottish Palaeoenvironmental archive http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/~spsi/gistrans/spainfo.htm
SCRAN http://www.scran.ac.uk/