centre: Archaeology Data Service (ADS)

The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) is part of the Department of Archaeology at the University of York. The 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 is at the forefront of developing national and trans-national resource discovery, data aggregation and data dissemination technologies in archaeology. The ADS has extensive expertise in the fields of digital curation, heterogeneous data set mapping (including geospatial data) and digital data standard development and application in the arts and humanities sector.