We are thrilled to announce the 27 successful Small Grants projects, that will be receiving a total £550,00 to ensure that vital heritage science datasets are preserved and accessible! To find out more about the small grants programme, and the successful projects visit: buff.ly/87FztSD

🚀 Small Grants Programme NOW OPEN! Funding available for UK heritage science & conservation projects 📂 Enhance access to heritage resources (£25k) 💻 Build virtual research environments (£15k) w/ STFC Hartree Centre Deadline: 28 Nov 2025 Funded by @ukri.org #RICHeS Read more here: buff.ly/iFoKHNX

You have until 2 November to apply for this exciting role!

⭐ The ADS Data Catalogue is Live!⭐ Explore hundreds of thousands of archaeological resources including over 100,000 reports and 5,000 archive collections. 👉To find out more and start exploring visit buff.ly/BMulYqQ

🚀 We are excited to announce that the Data Catalogue & Catalogue of Services are now live! Explore heritage science data and facilities like never before with these two powerful new tools. To find out more visit and explore these new tools for yourself visit buff.ly/QAlbPOh

5000 archives is quite a milestone - and no better way to celebrate it than the publication of the new permanent home for the 'Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi' - a stunning collection of 28,000 images of stained glass - especially for those who thought we were just about holes in the ground.

Look out for this transformative improvement to finding stuff on ADS

Review of Hadley & Richards, ‘Life in the Viking Great Army’ in this week’s TLS. @danelawdawn.bsky.social @juliandrichards.bsky.social

Find out more about the Heritage Science Data Service in the latest blog post from @ukri.org #RICHeS www.riches.ukri.org/news-and-eve... #hertage #science

🚨 What's next for heritage science? Find out at our first ever NHSF Conference! Registration is now OPEN 👉 www.heritagescienceforum.org.uk/what-we-do/p... 📅: 10 July 2025 📍: @ucl.ac.uk

🏺 Join us in shaping the future of digital heritage preservation! We are advertising a fantastic new role: Linked Open Data Developer! To find out more visit: buff.ly/cFGM8na 📣 The deadline is 26.05.25 #DigitalHeritage #JobOpportunities #DigitalArchives #JobOpening #DigitalCareers #NowHiring

Excellent session featuring collaboration between @ariadne-ri.bsky.social and @dariaheu.bsky.social

Calling all pottery specialists! This is an amazing new reference collection - hopefully the first of many - and sure to be featured in the new Heritage Science Data Service catalogue - to be launched in Autumn 2025

#CIfA2025 has started! 🏺 Come down to the Atrium on level zero and say hello!!

🌍✨ NARA Institute Visits the ADS! ✨🌍 Last month, we were thrilled to host a delegation from the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties! 📊💻 To read more about our history of interactions and our ongoing collaboration, visit our most recent news story here: buff.ly/ReOSZii

Stunning milestone reached! And there will be more exciting news to follow - later in 2025 - on a new search interface to help you find that specific archive you want!!

Really interesting episode of Gone Medieval Podcast with @danelawdawn.bsky.social & @juliandrichards.bsky.social on the Viking Great Army. (and a Woodstown mention too!) 🙌 open.spotify.com/episode/2dK7...

Just back from the launch of a new project. @ads-update.bsky.social and @hsds-update.bsky.social are leading the development of the infrastructure

ECHOES is shaping the future of cultural heritage—are you in? Whether you’re a researcher, a museum professional, or a digital innovator, there’s a place for you in ECHOES and the Cultural Heritage Cloud. 🚀 Be part of the change—follow us for updates and get involved!

🎉 Exciting News! Our New Website is Live! 🎉 We are thrilled to announce the launch of our brand-new website! 🏺 We've been working hard to offer an improved website to offer new information, improved navigation and exciting new features. ⭐ To take a look visit https://hsds.ac.uk/

New Post: Data Specialist – HSDS (3-year). Help shape digital systems that support heritage science & empower GLAM institutions across the UK. Apply: ce0838li.webitrent.com/ce0838li_web... Closes: 23 Feb 2025 #RICHeS

New Job: Join the National Gallery as a Content & Engagement Specialist – HSDS (3-year), to shape the future of heritage science data across the UK. Drive collaboration & innovation in GLAMs. Apply: ce0838li.webitrent.com/ce0838li_web... Closes: 23 Feb 2025 #RICHeS

Pleased that @ads-update.bsky.social is one of the two UK partners in #ECHOES, and working with @ariadne-ri.bsky.social to ensure that Archaeology is well represented

We have two new videos on how to use the ARIADNE Portal! One short 4 min. one using a research question example and one 40 min. in-depth demo by Julian Richards of ADS. Check them out here: www.ariadne-research-infrastructure.eu/2025/01/23/t...

This is an exemplar of what online publication of a major infrastructure project can achieve - with simultaneous release of a complete digital archive and map-based interface from @ads-update.bsky.social. Just what the PUNS report envisioned - all those years ago

⚓ Excited to share our new video release! 🏺 Dive into the UK's rich maritime history using our new introduction and how to guide videos! To watch these videos visit: https://buff.ly/40Nm3zv Be sure to watch and let us know your thoughts! #UnlockingCollections #TaNC #shipwrecks #marine

After the release of the Torksey and Aldwark online finds catalogues by @trixranderson.bsky.social @danelawdawn.bsky.social and @juliandrichards.bsky.social I've been casting some white metal masters of ribbed strapends from soapstone moulds for 'lost wax' castings. #vikings #GreatArmy #MicelHere

You can read more about these and the other coin finds in the OUP book "Life in the Viking Great Army: Raiders, Traders, and Settlers" by @danelawdawn.bsky.social and @juliandrichards.bsky.social, with contributions by Dave Haldenby, Gareth Perry, and me - or look over the Torksey archive on ADS:

#Findsfriday! I'm planning a series of posts on the finds from the Viking camps at Torksey and Aldwark, highlighting the release of the site databases on the ADS. Inspired by Dr Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm's talk to the SSNS last night, I thought I'd start with these two lead 'trial pieces'

More job opportunities with ADS and HSDS - now two technical roles.

Exciting new project focusing on digital twins for heritage conservation and protection

🏺Reminder that voting is open until the 10th of February! 🎉This recognition is a testament to Julian's efforts to make heritage data archives freely accessible online for generations to come. It's amazing to see this work celebrated! It takes two seconds to cast your vote! archaeology.co.uk/vote

Beautiful drawing by @allantadams.bsky.social of the King's Manor range that is now home to @ads-update.bsky.social. I particularly like the 'cafe open' sign

Illustrated catalogues from the Viking Great Army sites at Aldwark & Torksey now on ADS. Key supplement to "Life in the Viking Great Army: Raiders, Traders, and Settlers". @juliandrichards.bsky.social @trixranderson.bsky.social Dave Haldenby, Gareth Perry archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/news-events/...

And ALSO OUT NOW - two searchable and illustrated databases of over 5000 artefacts from Aldwark and Torksey - doi.org/10.5284/1115... doi.org/10.5284/1115... Live on @ads-update.bsky.social Supplementary materials with a reuse value! All known artefacts from these key Viking sites now online

SNEAK PREVIEW - "Life in the Viking Great Army: Raiders, Traders, and Settlers" by @danelawdawn.bsky.social and me, with contributions by Dave Haldenby, Gareth Perry, @trixranderson.bsky.social. Published tomorrow 9 Jan by OUP - global.oup.com/academic/pro.... Culmination of over a decade's research

There is some brilliant digital content here, for re-use for teaching and research

We are excited to present this video demonstrating the @ariadne-ri.bsky.social Portal: a state-of-the-art Linked Open Data-powered platform designed to aggregate & make accessible archaeological metadata, presented by Prof @juliandrichards.bsky.social of @ads-update.bsky.social 🏺 🎦 buff.ly/40d1z2S

Nice feature by Dalya Alberge in the Observer about our forthcoming #VikingGreatArmy book with OUP, by @danelawdawn.bsky.social and me, with @trixranderson.bsky.social, Gareth Perry & Dave Haldenby - out 9 Jan - with catalogues of 5000 artefacts from Aldwark and Torksey at @ads-update.bsky.social

Job alert! - two opportunities to learn a new skill in 2025 and join our growing team of digital archivists

🌟Happy Wrapped Day!🌟 We thought we'd take this opportunity to look back on our statistics from the past year! Want to know more? Read our annual report 2023-24 at: archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/... #WrappedDay #AnnualReport #YearInReview #YearlyWrapUp #wrapped

Ever wondered what the start of a career with the ADS looks like? 🤔 This weeks' new blog post comes from Burcu Aksahin, who has recently joined the ADS, and talks about her background and experiences at the ADS so far! 📖To read more visit: archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/blog/my-firs...

Some exciting news! I'm really delighted to have been nominated by Current Archaeology for #ArcaheologistoftheYear. Voting is open until 10 Feb, but do it now, before you forget 😀

Packed with good news…

It's #dpc #digitalpreservation #ff Follow Friday. Am finding lots of friendly and familiar faces over here this week so am very happy. I made an (incomplete) list of some of the #digipres and related people and accounts that I followed in the old place. Help yourself. go.bsky.app/7GdMRS3

📢Attention Archivists! 🌟Our latest blog post by Dr Solange Bohling 'Large digital cemetery archives: Good practice for depositors and archivists' is available to read now at: archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/blog/large-d... Content warning: This blog post contains images of human remains

I’m very sad to hear that Colin Renfrew, a giant in the field of Prehistoric Archaeology, has joined the realm of the ancients. An academic archaeologist with one foot firmly in the trench, he combined theory & fieldwork with flair - and had a knack for asking the right questions. His work lives on

The latest of our @ariadne-ri.bsky.social country by country surveys of the state of #FAIR data is now published

New article from @intarcheditor.bsky.social on #FAIR and the ARIADNE portal in Bulgarian Archaeology! 🏺

Now on Blue Sky...