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Online Repositories: The Archaeology Data Service 15 years on FAIMS workshop, Sydney , Australia, 16 August 2012 Julian Richards, Director Archaeology Data Service http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk The Archaeology Data Service: Set up

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Julian Richards, Director Archaeology Data Service

Online Repositories: The Archaeology Data Service 15 years on

FAIMS workshop, Sydney , Australia, 16 August 2012

http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk

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  • Set up in 1996 – 2 members of staff
  • Currently c.15 members of staff
  • Director
  • Deputy Director (Collections)
  • Deputy Director (Access)
  • Administrator
  • Systems Manager
  • 3 Applications Developers
  • 6 Digital Archivists
  • 1 IfA/HLF trainee
  • Based within the University of York

The Archaeology Data Service:

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Funding:

  • Initially received funding from
  • Arts and Humanities Research Board (now AHRC)
  • Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
  • Presently receives core funding from AHRC (one-sixth)

alongside a range of project-based funding (five-sixths)

  • Annual turnover c. £850,000
  • Universities & public sector & commercial archaeology
  • Charging policy: deposit fees – one-off charge
  • Mandated deposit – AHRC, NERC, English Heritage,

Society of Antiquaries, British Academy, CBA

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  • Digital preservation
  • Free access to data via the

Internet

  • Guidance and support for data

creators

  • Teaching and learning resources

Supporting research, learning and teaching with free, high quality and dependable digital resources

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"Digital information lasts forever -or five years, whichever comes first."

Information entropy

Michener, W.K., Brunt, J.W., Helly, J.J., Kirchner, T.B. and Stafford, S.G. 1997. Nongeospatial Metadata for the Ecological Sciences. Ecological Applications. 7: 330-342.

"Digital information lasts forever

(Jeff Rothenberg, RAND Corp., 1997)

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8" Floppy 3.5" Floppy 5.25" Floppy 12" Optical Disk 5.25" Optical Disk CD-ROM Sparq Disk Cartridge Zip Disk Click! DVD-ROM Jaz Disk Floptical Disk Punch Tape Rectangular Hole Punch Card IBM 3480 DLT Tape DG90M Tape DC4_120 8mmD-eight QIC DC600 G2000 Tape 4mm Tape Ditto Max 9-Track Reel Cassette tape Memory Stick MultiMedia Card SD Memory Card xD Picture Card Smart Media CompactFlash Travan

Memory Lane

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The size of digital archives held by different types of archaeological bodies

10 20 30 40 1-5Mb 5-10Mb 10-50Mb 50-100Mb 100- 1,000Mb >1Gb Number of archiving bodies

National body Local gov. archaeology Field archaeology HEI Museum Consultancy

Archaeology Data Service

Memory Lane 1999

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2005 Project Estimates

Average project size (estimated)

19% 3% 3% 25% 50%

  • ver 200GB

150 - 200GB 100 - 150GB 50 - 100GB under 50GB

Roughly how much data would be generated by a single project?

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29/08/2012 http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk 9 1997, 13Gb 2001, 50Gb 2004, 146Gb 2007, 780Gb

2012, 13Tb ADS Maximum Storage Capacity 1996 -2012 (projected)

1996 $100 per GB ($0.10 per Mb) $100 2008 $2per GB ($0.002 per Mb) $2

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Technologies used

12% 4% 4% 3% 8% 1% 3% 11% 9% 9% 7% 14% 3% 12%

3D Laser Scanning Sidescan Sonar Multibeam Scanning Single Beam Scanning Geophysics Acoustic Tracking Sub bottom profiling Geographic (eg GIS) Lidar Digital Video Video Movie Clips Still Images CAD (2D or 3D) Other

Archaeological Data Collection Techniques

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In March 2011 we were very pleased to obtain the Data Seal of Approval:

http://assessment.datasealofapproval.org/assessment_36/seal/html/

We follow the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model

Archival Standards: How we do it

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Open Archival Information Systems (OAIS)

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Picture from DLib

Research Deep Storage Nearline backup Publish Delivery system Accession Delivery preparation Interface Release Preservation

Open Archival Information Systems (OAIS)

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GIS CAD Geophysics AP and Remote Sensing Excavation and Fieldwork Virtual Reality

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The Guides

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Additional resources

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The Opportunity: no preservation without re-use

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Year on year usage 1997-2012

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Grey Literature Library

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Who is using the ADS?

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Primary re-use of data

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Digital Archives

  • Afterthought - or part of the publication of a

project?

  • Multiple levels of publication for multiple

audiences The LEAP project – linking electronic archives and publications

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LEAP: Linking Electronic archives and publications

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Merv

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  • Technology permanently in flux
  • Automated ingest
  • Search paradigms
  • Research/commercial culture

Successes and Challenges

  • Tool development – OASIS/FISH
  • Integration into workflow
  • Embedding within funding bodies
  • Links with publishers – IA/JOAD
  • Audience reach

Challenges Successes

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