The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) supports research, learning and teaching with high quality and dependable digital resources. It does this by preserving digital data in the long term, and by promoting and disseminating a broad range of data in archaeology. The ADS promotes good practice in the use of digital data in archaeology, it provides technical advice to the research community, and supports the deployment of digital technologies. The ADS hosts AHDS Archaeology.
ADS curates ArchSearch a large archive of digital resources and metadata relating to archaeology.
See also
AHDS History
AHDS Visual Arts
AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics
AHDS Performing Arts
External link
Archaeology Data Service website (http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/)
Archaeology is in a special position in that much of the creation of its data results from destruction of primary evidence, making preservation of, and access to, data all the more critical in order to test, assess, reanalyse, and reinterpret both the data and the hypotheses arising from them.
Digital data need to be refreshed (periodic copying to new media types or into updated file formats) and migrated (transferring into new operating systems or to new data structures).
The function of the digital data set, the ability to look at variables in relation to one another, is lost and would be extremely expensive and time consuming to recreate unless digital archiving occurs.
The goal of this thesaurus is to encourage access to, and reuse of, collections, archives and record systems, and to facilitate cooperation and data exchange between all individuals and institutions involved in the retrieval, research and curation of archaeological objects.
Data Standards and Guidance for Digital Data Transfer to the Northamptonshire SMR - This draft standard is under development by Northamptonshire County Council to ease the transfer of digital data from contract units to the county Sites and Monuments Record.
National Geospatial Data Framework — This important co–operative initiative is aiming to provide effective means of access to geospatial data collected and held by government and the public and private sectors following a model potentially similar to that of the AHDS.
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