Repository details

Archaeology Data Service

Name of repository
Archaeology Data Service
Additional name(s)
  • ads
Repository URL
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk
Subject(s)
Description
The Archaeology Data Service supports research, learning and teaching with freely available, 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.
Content type(s)
Certificates and Standards
Keyword(s)
Repository type(s)
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/about
Research data repository language(s)
  • eng
Data and/or service provider
  • dataProvider
  • serviceProvider
Institution name
University of York
URL
https://www.york.ac.uk/
Contact(s)
Country
United Kingdom
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1996
Institution name
Arts and Humanities Research Council
Additional name(s)
  • AHRC
URL
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk
Contact(s)
  • enquiries@ahrc.ac.uk
Country
United Kingdom
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1996
Institution name
Joint Information Systems Committee
Additional name(s)
  • JISC
URL
https://www.jisc.ac.uk/
Contact(s)
Country
United Kingdom
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
2003
End date of responsibility
2008-03-31
Institution name
Natural Environment Research Council
Additional name(s)
  • NERC
URL
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/
Contact(s)
Country
United Kingdom
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit

Policies (2)

Policy Name
Preservation Policy
URL
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/attach/preservation/PreservationPolicyV1.3.1.pdf
Policy Name
ADS Terms of Use and Access
URL
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/advice/termsOfUseAndAccess

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Database licenses (1)

Database License
Copyrights
URL
http://www.york.ac.uk/about/legal-statements/#tab-3

Data access (1)

Type of access to data
open

Data licenses (2)

DataLicense
CC
URL
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
DataLicense
Copyrights
URL
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/advice/termsOfUseAndAccess

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
  • other

Data upload license (1)

Data upload license name
Archaeology Data Service Deposit Licence
Data upload license URL
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/advice/guidelinesForDepositors#section-guidelinesForDepositors-1.2.HowToDeposit
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • DOI
Name of the repository software
  • unknown
Versioning
no
Data citation guideline
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/advice/termsOfUseAndAccess
Enhanced Publication
unknown
Quality management
yes

Metadata standards (1)

Metadata standard name
Repository-Developed Metadata Schemas
Metadata standard scheme
DCC
Metadata standard URL
http://www.dcc.ac.uk/resources/metadata-standards/repository-developed-metadata-schemas

Alerting services (1)

Type of alerting service
RSS
Alerting service
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/rss/ads.rdf

Remarks

Remarks
ads is covered by Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index. ADS is one of the Data Centres of NERC, http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/ The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) was established in September 1996, as one of five discipline-based service providers within the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS).The ADS is a member of the Europeana Council of Content Providers and Aggregators. The ADS is an associate member of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)
Entry date
2012-07-23
Last update
2017-01-19
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re3data.org: Archaeology Data Service; editing status 2017-01-19; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R3MW23 last accessed: 2017-10-23