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Two new print publications of the Guides to Good Practice are out now!
The Archaeology Data Service and Digital Antiquity are proud to announce the print publication of two new Guides to Good Practice, Caring for Digital Data in…
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SPRUCE Hackathon – File Characterisation
The other week I had the opportunity to participate in the SPRUCE Hackathon hosted by Leeds University. Hackathons are an opportunity for developers to get together and…
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ADS wins DPC Decennial Award
As part of its tenth anniversary celebrations, the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) awarded its Decennial Award, for an outstanding contribution to digital preservation, to the Archaeology…
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Impact Project Update
The Impact of the Archaeology Data Service: a study and methods for enhancing sustainability We are now just over half-way through the project that commenced in…
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ReACTing to digital archive requirements.
In April this year our former colleague, Jen Mitcham, attended the inaugural SPRUCE digital preservation mash-up in Glasgow (16th-18 April 2012), an event organised by…
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DPC Decennial Award Nomination: ADS short listed amongst esteemed company
The announcement of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) awards shortlist is always greeted with some excitement the digital community, but this year’s list was particularly well…
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PDF, or PDF/A: that is the question
The Portable Document Format (PDF) remains the most popular and de facto format for the sharing of printable documents across the web. As such the PDF…
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Migrating Data: The Council for British Archaeology Research Reports
At the Archaeology Data Service we know that in order to keep files safe and accessible long into the future, we need to migrate or refresh…
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New Study on the Impact of the ADS
For more than fifteen years the ADS has been working to serve its users, both by acting as a long-term repository for valuable archaeological data and…
