Training School Programme
The training school will take place over five days, beginning with structured teaching and hands on activities and allowing time towards the end of the week to discuss how to apply these good practices to the applicants own circumstances.
This page provides the programme of the training school, the topics covered and, in due course, links to the training materials.
🗓️ Schedule
Monday 11th November - Introduction
- Tour of Kings Manor and the ADS Offices
- Welcome - Outline of Training Programme
- Introduction to the ADS
- Attendee introductions
- Collection Highlights from the ADS
- Activity: Set personal trainee objectives.
Tuesday 12th November - Data Management
- Open Research and Archaeological Data
- The FAIR and CARE data principles
- An Introduction to Data Management
- Activity: Critical Analysis of Data Management Plans
- Activity: Write a DMP using DMPTool
- The Importance of Metadata - Discovery and Preservation
- Data Storage and Backup
- Useful Resources / Tip and Tricks
Wednesday 13th November - Digital Preservation and Quality Assurance
- An Introduction to Digital Preservation
- Workflows for Archives - Tour of the ADS archiving workflow
- Organisation Workflows and Preservation Policies
- File Formats - Migration and Normalisation of Files
- Planning Selection and Retention Strategies
- Activity: Selecting Datasets
Thursday 14th November - Dissemination and Data Reuse
- Collections Management
- Archive Interfaces
- Disseminating Research and Data - A Case Study from the ADS
- Activity: Designing a dissemination plan
- Facilitating Data Reuse
- Digital Publication
- Identifying objectives for One on One Sessions
🧑 Friday 15th November - One one one sessions with ADS Experts
Participants will be matched with an appropriate expert from the ADS to discuss their specific needs and requirements for their organisation or research project. We recommend that each participant come to the training school with a specific requirement in mind, however, we can also help to provide support during the training sessions. These sessions will take place on the last day of the training school.
Keynote lecture
The keynote lecture by ADS Director Professor Julian Richards will take place on Wednesday, 13th November at 4:00 pm, followed by a social event.
The Archaeology Data Service and its role in the European Heritage Landscape
Julian Richards
Digital Lunch
Please join us for the Digital Lunch on Friday 15th November at 1pm.
“Scaling down: Questioning assumptions on the reuse of digital data”
KL Seaton
This week we have KL Seaton, speaking about her PhD work on digital data reuse in archaeology: