📢 New Guide to Good Practice: A Guide to Personal Data in Archaeological Archives is live! Practical GDPR advice for archaeological data, from ADS & @uclarchaeology.bsky.social via the TETRARCHs project. Open access: buff.ly/boS4Ig9 #GDPR #Archaeology #OpenAccess Find out more here: buff.ly/7N1c7BF

A Guide to Personal Data in Archaeological Archives - A Guide to Personal Data in Archaeological Archives

This Guide provides basic advice for those working with archaeological data, such as whether the data is personal or sensitive (or both), and how this affects how the data should be handled in…

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⭐ New Blog Post Alert⭐ This weeks blog post, written by Dr Richard Lee, celebrates the Festival of Archaeology by highlighting some of the Community Archaeology collections that illustrate the breadth of public and volunteer activity across the UK. To find out more visit: buff.ly/75lqKQa

⭐ New Blog Post Alert ⭐ Last month Archivists Burcu Aksahin and Marco Brunello, had the opportunity to represent the ADS and HSDS at the second ATRIUM Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) held in Athens, Greece. Read about their experience and key takeaways here: buff.ly/ommgfEp

🌳 The Festival of Archaeology 2026 is here! 🌳 One of the ways we are celebrating this year is with our new self-guided walking route around Ilkley Moor, one of Britain's richest prehistoric rock art landscapes. To find out more or download the walking guide visit: buff.ly/QNptUoP

📖 Between the Fictional and Real Archive 💿️ The stereotype of dust covered archives can be seen throughout media. The focus of this weeks blog post by Leonora Fane-Saunders, focuses on the how closely work at the ADS mirrors this depiction of archives. To read the full post visit: buff.ly/GzLEVYF

Have you completed the Introduction to Ingest training? Get your questions answered and take your data work to the next level this Thursday! 💡 Ingest Drop-In Q&A Session 💡 16 July 2026, 10-11 BST 💡 Online 💡 @ads-update.bsky.social and @hsds-update.bsky.social.

Ingest Drop-in Q&A Session - 16th July 2026

An open, informal Q&A drop-in for Ingest users. Bring your questions for the ADS and HSDS Team.

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📣 Got questions about Ingest, the new ADS deposit system? Bring them to our next Drop-in Q&A Session! 🗓️ Thursday 16 July at 10am 💻 Online via Zoom | ⏱️ 1 hour No agenda — just your questions answered. 🔗 Register: buff.ly/TKJAhxC #Ingest #OpenData #Archaeology

Ingest Drop-in Q&A Session - 16th July 2026

An open, informal Q&A drop-in for Ingest users. Bring your questions for the ADS and HSDS Team.

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Last month the ADS moved to our new office at the Guildhall! Fittingly, @intarcheditor.bsky.social has also recently published the excavations from the annexe, offering a look into the site's long and varied past. To read the Guildhall paper visit: archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/news-events/...

HSDS Highlights - Guides to Good Practice 💡 If you want to improve your practice in creating, managing, and preserving digital heritage data across the entire project lifecycle, access the full Guides to Good Practice here: buff.ly/3qP4NLr @hsds-update.bsky.social @ads-update.bsky.social

Guides to Good Practice

The Guides to Good Practice (G2GP) provide comprehensive guidance for creating, managing, and preserving digital heritage data across the entire project lifecycle. Developed by the Archaeology Data…

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New training opportunities 👀 The Heritage Science Data Service is running another FREE webinar on depositing heritage science data! 💡 ‘How to deposit data with the HSDS’ 💡 14 July 2026 (11:00-13:00 BST) 💡 Learn more and register: buff.ly/AKirgxD #HeritageScience @hsds-update.bsky.social

Upcoming Training

How to deposit data with the HSDS - This training session introduces depositing heritage science data, particularly with the Heritage Science Data…

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💡 HSDS Grants Programme Round 2 NOW OPEN 💡 Got heritage science data that deserves a wider audience? Ready to build cutting-edge digital tools for research? We can help. ✨ 🔓 Theme 1: Generate Datasets (up to £25k) 🖥️ Stream 2: Build virtual research environments (up to £15k) Visit buff.ly/oU5RGiJ

📣 New to Ingest, the ADS and HSDS deposit system for archaeological & heritage data? Our Introduction to Ingest training session is running next Thursday 9 July at 10am! 💻 Online via Zoom | ⏱️ 1.5 hours | 👥 Open to all Hands-on, interactive, and beginner-friendly. 🔗 Register:

An Introduction to Ingest - 9th July 2026

A hands-on online training session introducing ADS and HSDS users to Ingest, the new deposit system for archaeological and heritage data.

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📣 New to Ingest, the ADS and HSDS deposit system for archaeological & heritage data? Our Introduction to Ingest training session is running next Thursday 9 July at 10am! 💻 Online via Zoom | ⏱️ 1.5 hours | 👥 Open to all Hands-on, interactive, and beginner-friendly. 🔗 Register:

An Introduction to Ingest - 9th July 2026

A hands-on online training session introducing ADS and HSDS users to Ingest, the new deposit system for archaeological and heritage data.

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This week marks World Wellbeing Week! Internet Archaeology has recently released Issue 73: Wellbeing and Archaeology. To find out more about this collection of articles highlighting the power of heritage to improve wellbeing, visit: buff.ly/thuFluE

📣 Got questions about Ingest, the new ADS deposit system? Bring them to our next Drop-in Q&A Session! 🗓️ Thursday 25 June at 10am 💻 Online via Zoom | ⏱️ 1 hour No agenda — just your questions answered. 🔗 Register: buff.ly/25sAn7D #Ingest #OpenData #Archaeology

Ingest Drop-in Q&A Session - 25th June 2026

An open, informal Q&A drop-in for Ingest users. Bring your questions for the ADS and HSDS Team.

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New in IA71: FAIR and Open CHERISH: Data and outputs from TLS and UAV digital photogrammetry surveys of coastal heritage sites in Ireland (Data paper) by Lesley Davidson @anthonycorns.bsky.social @edwardpollard.bsky.social & Robert Shaw @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social doi.org/10.11141/ia.... 🏺

Last week ADS Director Julian Richards, presented at the CIfA Wales/Cymru Group's Archives Afternoon. The talk focused on introducing the Heritage Science Data Service. The talk is now avalible to be viewed vis that CIfA Wales YouTube Channel or by following this link: buff.ly/h4SM0WQ

If you are outside the UK and would like to apply for funding to receive training in Linked Open Data and ARIADNE, you have three days left to get in your application! Details below 👇

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📢 Non-UK archaeology & heritage researchers: the deadline to apply for the ADS Transnational Access Training School has been extended to Friday 19 June! 🗓 12–16 Oct 2026 | University of York, UK Learn to map your data to the ARIADNE Portal. No experience needed! Apply 👉 buff.ly/ZH3fvZq

🏺 Free Expert-Led Training on the Reactive Digital Twin 🏺 Thirteen episodes of the ARTEMIS Learning Series are now available, guiding you through the full life of the Reactive Heritage Digital Twin, from the founding idea to the operational system. To watch the series visit: buff.ly/ybPigzf

📍 We're at the Association of Independent Museums (AIM) Conference at historic Ushaw House in Durham! Come find the HSDS team, alongside our partners at RICHeS! We'd love to meet you and see where we can help you👋 #AIMConference #HSDS

⏰ Tomorrow at 11am — don't miss the HSDS Grants Programme Round 2 info session! 🏛️ Up to £25,000 is available for heritage science & conservation research across the UK, funded via AHRC's RICHeS initiative. 100% FEC covered | Deadline: 30 Sept 2026 📋 Register here 👇 buff.ly/2cTpIWK

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: HSDS Grants Information Session - 10th June. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: HSDS Grants Information Session - 10th June. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

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Also the site of a big honking MOLA archaeological excavation that revealed written documentation of the sale of a Roman slave, now archived with the @ads-update.bsky.social archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/data-catalog...

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One, Poultry in the city of London. Designed by James Stirling and completed after his death in 1997, this building is clad in Jurassic Helidon and Devonian Wilderness Sandstones #urbangeology

📢 Non-UK archaeology & heritage researchers: the deadline to apply for the ADS Transnational Access Training School has been extended to Friday 19 June! 🗓 12–16 Oct 2026 | University of York, UK Learn to map your data to the ARIADNE Portal. No experience needed! Apply 👉 buff.ly/ZH3fvZq

📣Deadline extended to 19th June📣 ATRIUM TNA scheme is still open! This initiative is designed to support Arts & Humanities researchers by providing access to expert knowledge, mentorship, and tools from leading data management organisations across Europe 🔸 More: atrium-research.eu/travel-grants/

📢 Non-UK archaeology & heritage researchers: the deadline to apply for the ADS Transnational Access Training School has been extended to Friday 19 June! 🗓 12–16 Oct 2026 | University of York, UK Learn to map your data to the ARIADNE Portal. No experience needed! Apply 👉 buff.ly/ZH3fvZq

📣 New to Ingest, the ADS and HSDS deposit system for archaeological & heritage data? Our Introduction to Ingest training session is running next Thursday 28 May at 10am! 💻 Online via Zoom | ⏱️ 1.5 hours | 👥 Open to all Hands-on, interactive, and beginner-friendly. 🔗 Register: buff.ly/PaH0WwT

An Introduction to Ingest - 28th May 2026

A hands-on online training session introducing ADS and HSDS users to Ingest, the new deposit system for archaeological and heritage data.

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Furnace Fields: Iron Age & Roman Metalworking between York and the Humber doi.org/10.11141/ia.... (open access) An archaeological 🏺investigation at Thornton #Yorkshire has uncovered significant evidence of a long-lived industrial landscape dating from the middle Iron Age to the early Roman period.

Furnace Fields: Iron Age and Roman Metalworking between York and the Humber

An archaeological investigation associated with a proposed renewable energy development at Thornton in the East Riding of Yorkshire (UK) revealed extensive evidence for middle Iron Age to early Roman ...

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📣 Got questions about Ingest, the new ADS deposit system? Bring them to our next Drop-in Q&A Session! 🗓️ Thursday 14 May at 10am 💻 Online via Zoom | ⏱️ 1 hour No agenda — just your questions answered. 🔗 Register: buff.ly/knZt5DC #Ingest #OpenData #Archaeology

Ingest Drop-in Q&A Session - 14th May 2026

An open, informal Q&A drop-in for Ingest users. Bring your questions for the ADS and HSDS Team.

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📣 3 weeks left to apply for a TNA Travel Grant! We encourage applications from researchers in.... 🇵🇹 Portugal 🇱🇹 Lithuania 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇮🇪 Ireland 🇭🇺 Hungary 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇸🇰 Slovakia 🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇩🇰 Denmark 🇦🇹 Austria 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 🇸🇮 Slovenia 🔸 More: atrium-research.eu/travel-grants/

Last week staff from ADS and HSDS headed to the CIfA Annual Conference. This year’s theme, Building Connections’ aimed to showcase archaeological practice and innovation, providing a place for discussion and learning. To read more about the conference visit: buff.ly/ASRK0Mk ‎