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Collectionsfrom the Arts and Humanities
Data Service (AHDS)
http://ahds.ac.uk/
http
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ds.a
c.uk
/ How is the AHDS Organised?
• AHDS Executive(King’s College London)
• AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics(Oxford Text Archive, Oxford Uni.)
• AHDS History (UK Data Archive, University Of Essex)
• Funded by JISC and AHRC
• AHDS Archaeology(Archaeology Data Service, University Of York)
• AHDS Performing Arts (University Of Glasgow)
• AHDS Visual Arts(University College for Creative Arts, Farnham Campus)
• Established in 1996
http
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/ What does the AHDS do? (1)
• Advises on the creation of digital data
• AHDS Digitisation Workshops
• Guides to good practice, information papers, workshops on particular issues, case studies, advice service over phone / email
• Helps with technical aspects of applications to AHRC
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/ What does the AHDS do? (2)
• Collects, preserves and distributes high-quality digital resources for research and teaching
• Collections deposited by academics and by cultural heritage sector
• These resources are free for educational and private use
• Generally available online / available for downloading
• Different mechanisms for different formats and subjects
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/ General AHDS Collections
• http://ahds.ac.uk/collections
• Searches through all AHDS collections
– Historical datasets
– Literary Texts
– Collections of images
– Archaeological Datasets
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/ General AHDS Collections
• http://ahds.ac.uk/collections
• Thematic strengths
– Linguistic corpora• Old English Poetry and Prose• Commercial Italian• Medieval and Modern Chinese
– Census Material• National and local data from 19th and 20th
centuries
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/ General AHDS Collections
• http://ahds.ac.uk/collections
• Thematic strengths
– Great Britain Historical Database• Mortality, Occupation, Trade Union, Housing
– GIS of the Ancient Parishes of England and Wales, 1500-1850
• Boundary information on early modern period
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/ General AHDS Collections
• http://ahds.ac.uk/collections
• Thematic strengths– Linguistic corpus– Census Material– Great Britain Historical Database
• Textual material can require registration with AHDS; historical material with UK Data Archive
• Registration for UK Data Archive to be simplified in Summer 2006
• Generally available for download
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/ General AHDS Collections
• http://ahds.ac.uk/collections
• Serendipitous strengths
– Collections are driven by what depositors are researching and creating
– Thus collections, especially in history and text, can be particular in nature
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/ General AHDS Collections
• http://ahds.ac.uk/collections
• Serendipitous strengths– Ptolemy's Geographia : Books I & II– Genevan Sex Crimes Database, c.1440-c.1790 – Executions in the United States, 1608-1987– Scottish Emigration Database, 1923– Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832: Transcripts of Original
Manuscripts
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/ Visual Arts Collections
• http://visualarts.ahds.ac.uk/
• Over 60,000 images collections from universities and cultural heritage sector
• Wide array of possible fields: Art History, Fashion, Design, Crafts (e.g. ceramics, textiles), Contemporary Art, Architecture, Posters, Magazines
• Browsing, searching, Lightbox, Content-based image retrieval. All online.
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/ Visual Arts Collections
• http://visualarts.ahds.ac.uk/
• The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
• Design Council Archive: Designing Britain
• National Fine Art Collection (fineart.ac.uk)
• Public Monuments and Sculpture Association
• Imperial War Museum– Concise Art Collection – Posters of Conflict
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ds.a
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/ Visual Arts Collections
• The Learning Index
• http://visualarts.ahds.ac.uk/learning
• 13 learning and teaching modules using the images– Exhibiting Britain – Art for Social Spaces – Calligraphy: an education in letter form– Oral testimony and the interpretation of the crafts
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/ Archaeology Collections
• http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue
• Over 1m records related to sites and monuments in UK and abroad
• Contemporary and historic maps provided
• Uses: Not only archaeology but also Geography, History, Tourism, Urban Planning, Holidays
• All available online
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ds.a
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/ Archaeology Collections
• http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue
• Datasets related to particular research also available
– Royal Opera House Excavations
– Channel Tunnel Rail Link
– Christ Church, Spitalfields: investigations of the burial crypt 1984-1986
– Defence of Britain database
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ds.a
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/ Performing Arts Collections
• http://performingarts.ahds.ac.uk /collections/
• Generally available online – but like history collections more research focussed
• Designing Shakespeare
– 40 years of performance at London and Stratford
– Images from plays, cast lists, director interviews, programme notes
– Online interface
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/ AHDS Collections
• Wide range of materials, delivered in different formats
• Free for educational and private use
• Registration required only for some historical and textual items
• Continual process of adding collections and refining interface
• http://ahds.ac.uk/collections/
• This PowerPoint available at http://ahds.ac.uk/collections/about.htm
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