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ADS blog 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…

ADS blog 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…

Photo of ADS staff explaining something to another staff member ADS blog 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…

ADS blog 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…

DOI logo with text "vs URL" on a green background ADS blog 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…

#DOIsWithADS on a grey background ADS blog 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…

An archaeological excavation in progress ADS blog Market analysis and new stakeholder relationships Following on from our announcement of receiving funding from the University of York’s Partnership for Academic and Commercial Engagement initiative, the ADS has been pleased to…

The Title slide of the Presentation called 'Evolution of the Ingest Process at ADS' ADS blog The Evolution of the Ingest Process at the Archaeology Data Service – A Presentation for DigiPres North DigiPres North is a recently established interest group initiated by Bryony Hooper (Digital Preservation Manager at the University of Sheffield) and Dorothy Waugh (Digital Preservation Archivist…

A picture of several 3d printed objects ADS blog 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…

A picture of several 3d printers at YorCreate, University of York ADS blog 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…

A picture of a laptop, tablet and smartphone with pictures of the new web templates shown. ADS blog 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…