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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
