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The Archaeology Data Service supports research, learning and teaching with high quality and dependable #digital resources and #digital #preservation for #archaeology and heritage 💾💻🏺 Based in the Department of Archaeology, University of York, UK.
The deadline for the Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference #TAG2025 has been extended until August 18th!
🔸 Read more about ATRIUM's participation here: atrium-research.eu/events/theor...
🔸 Visit the TAG Conference website here: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...
We’re kicking off #ADayInArchaeology with an intro from @neilredfern.bsky.social, filmed in a landscape that holds deep personal meaning
From muddy boots to museum work, stay tuned today as we follow a day in the life of archaeologists, students & volunteers across the UK 🏺✨
Venus and Cupid by Shane A. Johnstone. Venus and Cupid Arts Trust, Morecambe. © Historic England Archive, Alun Bull
🎉 The Festival of Archaeology 2025 is here!🏺
To celebrate the role of open knowledge in wellbeing, we’re highlighting a selection of projects that showcase how archaeology can support personal and community wellbeing in diverse and meaningful ways.
🔗 To find out more visit: buff.ly/ltIPhVR
Banner with an image of archaeologists wearing orange hi-vis clothing answering questions. The CBA Festival of Archaeology and Antiquity logos sit on the bottom, next to the text '#Ask An Archaeologist Day. 25 July 2025. Got a question?'
#AskAnArchaeologist Day is on Bluesky this year! 🏺
Get your questions ready for this Friday, when tons of archaeologists will be on hand to answer your #archaeology queries.
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Look out for this transformative improvement to finding stuff on ADS
21.07.2025 12:33 — 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
A laptop showing the ADS Data Catalogue interface
🏛️ After 27 years, ArchSearch is being retired this September to make way for an upgrade - The ADS Data Catalogue! Featuring:
✨ Access to 5k ADS Archives and 100k reports
🗺️ Interactive maps & timeline views
🔍 Multi-parameter searching (What/Where/When)
🔗 Read more on the ADS website buff.ly/jW414wt
Call for Papers - TAG 2025, York, UK ATRIUM
ATRIUM invites contributions to the session "Towards Adaptation: Environmental Sustainability in Archaeological Workflows" at TAG 2025 at University of York 15-17 December. More information: www.ariadne-research-infrastructure.eu/2025/07/15/t...
The Call closes on 1st August. #ATRIUM-EU
⭐ Don't forget to sign up for the latest ADS Newsletter, which comes out next Monday! ⭐
🏺 To sign up go to the ADS website homepage at buff.ly/32jVWzc and scroll down to the bottom of the page ⬇️
Visit our Newsletter page to look at some previous editions buff.ly/u8d9kJR
Follow @cifa-imsig.bsky.social for more updates and for details of upcoming DigiTea Talks!
15.07.2025 09:38 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Working shot of archaeologists within a city landscape
🏺 Missed the latest CIfA Tea Break Talk?
Our Training and Communications Manager, Dr Nicky Garland, broke attendance records with the 'OASIS Explained' session, demystifying the UK’s historic environment investigation database.
💻 To find out more and watch the full talk visit: buff.ly/YvVYTnP
Our quarterly ATRIUM newsletter is coming out this week! Subscribe to our mailing list to keep up to date with:
🏺 Project News & Updates
🏺 TNA Scheme reports
🏺 Funding Opportunities
🏺 Calls for Papers & Conference Participation
➡️ Sign up: atrium-research.eu/newsletters/
I'm giving a talk next week for CIfA IMISG on OASIS! Sign up via the link below ⬇️
04.07.2025 12:40 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
If you care about innovation and heritage, don’t miss this!
#ARTEMISTALKS N°2: How AI and ontologies transform cultural memory into living, thinking systems.
🗓️ 3 July, 15:00 CEST
Live on Zoom & YouTube
🔗 Register: www.artemis-twin.eu/edfw
We’re live now!!
📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd9m...
📅 Just 1 week to go!
Next #DigITeaTalk:
🗓️ Tues 8 July | 🕧 12:30 BST
🎙️ OASIS Explained with Nicky Garland (ADS)
A must for anyone working with heritage data, archives, or archaeological reporting.
🔗 tinyurl.com/IMSIG-DigITe...
🆓 Free for CIfA members | £5 others
#OASIS #CIfA #IMSIG #ADS
We're delighted to be featured in this new survey of the UK's research landscape by the Mapping the Arts and Humanities Project (MAHP), under the title of digital infrastructure in action blog.humanities.org.uk/2025/06/26/m... along with @ads-update.bsky.social @oldbaileyonline.bsky.social
26.06.2025 13:43 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
⭐ Shaping Tomorrow’s Heritage Starts here, With You! ⭐
The ARTEMIS Project has launched a European-wide survey to help us understand how digital tools are currently used in your field, what challenges you face, and what you expect from future technologies.
Find out more: buff.ly/n2n8qlZ
Group of undergraduate and postgraduate Archaeology students on a pretend field trip to St Mary's Abbey in the Museum Gardens, York.
🏺 We're exploring APIs for the ADS archaeological collections! Imagine accessing our data directly from your research tools, automating downloads, and integrating archaeological resources seamlessly into your workflow.
Take our 6-min survey here: buff.ly/PIKBgsq
🏺 Interested in dissemination of digital bioarchaeological data?
Read Solange Bohlong's Internet Archaeology article visit: buff.ly/wQ7jqff
Or read her blog post written last year: buff.ly/KwzVKwo
Content warning: This blog post contains images of human remains.
In our second EAD celebration, today the CHERISH project (@discoveryprogramme.bsky.social, @rcahmwales.bsky.social, @aberuni.bsky.social, @geolsurvie.bsky.social) launches its UAV dataset, now digitally preserved for long-term open access in the Repository!
Find out more: dri.ie/news/europea...
Visitors of the Harwell Heritage Network meeting observes Dr. Susan Nehzati explaining a data collection setup inside a beamline laboratory. The room is filled with scientific equipment, metal piping, cables, and control systems.
🧬 Our first blog post for HSDS has been written by Dr Ewan Chipping.
Ewan travelled to the Harwell Heritage Network to understand how they aim to connect different parts of the heritage sector and supporting the use of advanced spectroscopy tools.
To read more visit: buff.ly/KpXPPaH
Join us next month for this online discussion on OER creation and reuse at York and Sheffield. Open to all, register below 👇
10.06.2025 08:17 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
An image of Dr Holly Wright presenting on stage
🏛️ Last month, Dr Holly Wright travelled to Swedigarch , delivering a keynote titled "Archive Once, Reuse Everywhere." Whilst there, she highlighted the importance of open, sustainable, and collaborative data practices. To read more about this outreach and the work of the ADS visit: buff.ly/dKPW5q9
10.06.2025 09:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🚨 Extended Deadline🚨
To get responses from as many people working in cultural heritage a possible, the ECHOES questionnaire deadline has been extended to the end of June.
🏺 To find out more visit buff.ly/K9rvXMX
Working link 👉 archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/blog/cats-as...
04.06.2025 09:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The CATS team outside a church near the Skipsea excavation
the CATS team loki8ng at some of the excavated materials from Skipsea
🔍 Step behind the scenes of the ADS with CATS Week 2025! From cataloguing to a field trip, it was a valuable experience to discuss idea to improve our services and prepare for the ever-increasing number of archives being deposited with us!
👉 To find out more read our latest blog: buff.ly/wc1xNC4
A flyer for the TAG 2025 call for papers
Call for papers for TAG 2025!
🔍 Call for papers: 1 June–1 August
📍 York, UK
📆 15-17 Dec 2025
To apply, please send paper abstracts (c. 200 words) by 1st August to emilie.page-perron@york.ac.uk
👉 To find out more visit: www.atrium-research.eu/news/call-fo...
New in IA69: Bohling, S. Online dissemination of 3D bioarchaeological data: An exploration of ethics, user preferences, and contextualisation in an official digital repository setting doi.org/10.11141/ia....
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The TETRARCHs project is showcasing the work of artists Eloise Moody and Chloé Dierckx. These works explore how we connect with the past through data, memory, and imagination.
📍 King’s Manor, University of York
🗓️ 6–7 June | 10 AM – 6 PM
To find out more visit: buff.ly/OBkKvHU
ADS and HSDS staff talking to attendees at the stall
guests looking at USB trowels
a presentation showing a ADS Archive
A close up of ADS, HSDS, and Internet archaeology merch
⭐ This month a team from the ADS, HSDS, and Internet Archaeology visited Birmingham for the Annual Cifa conference.
To read more about the conference and what we got up to visit: buff.ly/sivvJ2M
