Resources
The following resources were materials circulated throughout the course of the ADS Training School. These resources are available to reuse under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 licence. These resources are shared in line with ADS policies on Access and Reuse.
To cite the following resources please use the following citation:
Archaeology Data Service (2024) ADS Transnational Access Training School - Nov 24 [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service.
Monday 11th November
Introduction
Introduction to the ADS Training School - Nicky Garland
Introduction to ADS - Tim Evans
Collection Highlights
- Crystal Palace Dinosaurs - Jamie Geddes
- Thornborough Henge - Richard Lee
Objective Setting Exercise - Nicky Garland
Tuesday 12th November
Data Management
Open Research - Nicky Garland
The FAIR and CARE Principles - Valeria Carrillo
Data Management - Nicky Garland
The Importance of Metadata - Nicky Garland and Jenny O’Brien
Data Storage - Tim Evans
Resources - Nicky Garland
Wednesday 13th November
Digital Preservation and Quality Assurance
Introduction to Digital Preservation - Olivia Foster
Workflows for Digital Archives - A Tour of the ADS archiving workflow - Nicky Garland
Digital Preservation Coalition - Rapid Assessment Model - Nicky Garland
Migration and Normalisation of Files - Olivia Foster
Selection and Retention Strategies - Nicky Garland
Collections Management - Nicky Garland
Thursday 14th November
Dissemination and Data Reuse
Case Study - Archiving the CHERISH Dataset - Lesley Davidson
Communication and Dissemination - Nicky Garland
Disseminating ADS Research and Data - Nicky Garland and Grace McCulloch
Data Reuse - Holly Wright
Digital publication: Data Papers - Judith Winters
Friday 15th November
- Building Clean and Archivable Data : Workshop - Jamie Geddes and Nicky Garland
Other Useful Links
During the Training School, participants contributed links to useful resources related to the topics covered.
ATRIUM Transnational Access Scheme
- TNA Blog - Transnational Access Scheme Blog (a possible structure for the Training School report)
- atRium Training School Reports - Examples of completed TNA Summer School reports
Data Management
- DMP OPIDor - An active support tool to help plan your data management in harmony with your community’s practices.
- DMP Online - A tool to help you to create, review, and share data management plans that meet institutional and funder requirements.
- DMPTool - A free, community-supported service that makes it easier to create machine-actionable data management and sharing plans.
- ARGOS - An open extensible service that simplifies the management, validation, monitoring and maintenance and of Data Management Plans.
- DAMAP - A tool for machine actionable DMPs.
- ARCHES - An open source data management platform for the heritage field.
3D data
- A Mid-Republican House From Gabii - Digital publication with embedded 3d models.
- Gabi Goes Digital - A project that aimed to bring the 3D modelling work to publications.
- Voyager Story Standalone - A backend user interface for authoring 3D Voyager scene.
Selection
- Guidance on Selection in Archaeological Archiving - EAC Guidelines on Selection for Physical and Digital archaeological archives.
- File formats for long term preservation, as recommended by the CINES French institution
Workflows
- Social Sciences & Humanities Open Marketplace - Resources for research in Social Sciences and Humanities: tools, services, training materials, workflows and datasets
- archeoViz - A R Shiny application for the visualisation, interactive exploration, and web communication of archaeological spatial data.
- archeoViz Blog - Companion blog post for the archeoViz application.
Interesting Research Projects
- MAEASAM Project - Mapping Africa’s Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments.
- Eureka3d - Research Project to help enable the digital transformation of the Cultural Heritage sector.
- Open Citations Tool - OpenCitations provides additional tools for retrieving information about bibliographic and citation data.
- The FeedSax Project - ADS Digital Archive for Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: The Bioarchaeology of an Agricultural Revolution, 2017-2022.
Other
- COST Action - The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) is a funding organisation for the creation of research networks, called COST Actions.
- EU Citizen Science - Heritage Quest, a Citizen Science project from the Netherlands.