-- This page is no longer updated, it represents the status on 31st March 2008 ---- Current and Past AHDS Projects --

Current and past projects involving the AHDS and its Centres


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-- Current Projects --

[Evaluation of a Digital Transcription of English Parochial Registers]

[East London Theatre Archive]
Creating an invaluable database, helping to address the lack of digital resources available in the performing arts sector [East London Theatre Archive project]

[WoCRIG]
Support Project for the Common Repository Interfaces Working Group (CRIG) [WoCRIG project]

[Sherpa DP2]
Extending the collaborative, shared preservation environment developed by the [Sherpa DP project]

[MetaTools]
Investigating Metadata Generation Tools

[SOAPI]
Service-Oriented Architecture for Preservation and Ingest of digital objects

[InSPECT]
Understanding the concept of 'significant properties' in relation to preserving digital objects

[Metadata Generation for Resource Discovery]
Creation and maintenance of high quality resource discovery metadata

[Development of a Supplier Training Scheme]
Developing a course and set of training materials for potential digitisers of cultural heritage in the north east

[Shibboleth Early Adopter Programme]
The project is concerned with the implementation of a Shibboleth-based registration system

[Submarines in Classical Art]
The project is concerned with the use, within the visual arts, of advanced imaging ICT developed in certain medical and military arenas

[Sherpa DP]
Creating a collaborative, shared preservation environment for [the SHERPA project]

[DAAT: Digital Asset Assessment Tool]
Devloping a digital preservation assessment tool

[OASIS: Online AccesS to the Index of archaeological investigationS,] (link to ADS site)
Providing an online index to archaeological grey literature

[Big Data: Preservation and Management Strategies for Exceptionally Large Data Formats] (link to ADS site)
Investigating issues in managing large data files in archaeology

[Making the LEAP: linking electronic archives and publications] (link to ADS site)
Investigating ways that electronic publication can provide broader access to research findings


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-- Past Projects - Completed 2007 --[Online Historical Population Reports Project]
A complete collection of British Historical Population Reports


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-- Past Projects - Completed 2006 --[Stormont Papers]
Digitising Northern Irish Parliamentary Papers, from 1921 to 1972

['Digital Images Archiving Study' and 'Moving Pictures and Sound Archiving Study']
How moving images and sound, and digital images are being preserved

[E-science scoping study]
Reviewing current uses of e-science in the arts and humanities

[AHDS Projects and Method Database (extension)]
Creating online resource of humanities computing projects and methods


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-- Past Projects - Completed 2005 --

[The Digital Picture] (external link)
Survey of the effect of digital images in arts education

[JISC Repositories Review]
A broad review of the state of digital repositories

[Sherpa / E-Prints]
A feasibility study on the preservation of e-prints.

[JISC Collection Exemplars]
How digital resource collections might be embedded in teaching or research.

[ARENA: Archaeological Records of Europe Network Access Project]
Making selected European archaeological archives available online

[The National Fine Art Education Digital Collection] (external link)
Digitising work from UK art schools

[PICTIVA]
Online tools and teaching and learning collections for images

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-- Past Projects - Completed 2004 --

[AHDS Subject Extension Feasibility Study]
AHDS extentsion into Classics, Ancient History, Religious Studies, Theology, Philosophy and Law

[NOF Technical Advisory Service] (external link)
Advice service for 152 digitisation projects funded under the New Opportunities Fund.

[An Investigation into Free E-Books]
Investigation into the possible uses, users, and usability of free e-books

[QA Focus] (external link)
Briefing papers in Quality Assessment for JISC's Information Environment programme.

[AHDS Projects and Method Database (prototype)]
Prototype database listing methodooogies used by digitisation projects


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-- Past Projects - Completed 2003 --

[POSSE: Preserve Our Student Shows for Eternity]
Preserving art school student degree shows.

[Developing the CHCC]
Developing the Collection of Historical and Contemporary Census Data into a major learning and teaching resource.

[Reformatting the Parish Register Aggregate Analyses, 1662-1811; 404 Data]
Improving the quality of parts the Population History of England and Wales, 1538-1838 dataset.

[PATOIS: Publications and Archives in Teaching: Online Information Sources]
Online teaching and learning materials for archaeology.

[Making IT happen: Proving the Common Information Environment] (external link)
Developing a geospatial demonstrator for the JISC Common Information Environment group

[FAIR / Hybrid Archives]
Sharing delivering and preservation of resources amongst different institutions

[PIXUS: The Image Portal]
Delivering image collections from different sources

[geoXwalk]
Development of gazetteer to support on-line geographic searching and assist in the geographic indexing of information resources.

[Go-Geo]
Allowing for the discovery of geographic data and related resources

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-- All Projects sorted by topic --
-- Advice on Digital Creation --

* Quality Assurance Focus
* New Opportunities Fund Technical Advisory Service

-- Learning & Teaching --

* Development of a Supplier Training Scheme
* PICTIVA - Image teaching resources
* Developing the Census (CHCC)
* PATOIS: Publications and Archives in Teaching: Online Information Sources

-- Research in Humanities Computing --

* The Digital Picture
* AHDS Projects and Method Database (extension)
* AHDS Subject Extension Feasibility Study
* AHDS Projects and Method Database (prototype)
* Submarines in Classical Art

-- Preservation & Archiving --

* SOAPI
* InSPECT
* Big Data: Preservation and Management Strategies for Exceptionally Large Data Formats
* DAAT: Digital Asset Assessment Tool
* Sherpa DP
* Sherpa DP2
* 'Digital Images Archiving Study' and 'Moving Pictures and Sound Archiving Study'
* FAIR / Hybrid Archives

-- Digital Content Creation --

* Online Historical Population Reports Project
* Stormont Papers
* The National Fine Art Education Digital Collection
* POSSE: Preserve Our Student Shows for Eternity
* Reformatting the Parish Register Aggregate Analyses, 1662-1811; 404 Data
* Submarines in Classical Art

-- Resource Discovery --

* MetaTools
* Metadata Generation for Resource Discovery
* Making IT happen: Proving the Common Information Environment
* OASIS: Online AccesS to the Index of archaeological investigationS,
* geoXwalk
* Go-Geo
* ARENA: Archaeological Records of Europe Network Access Project

-- User Authentication --

* Shibboleth Early Adopter Programme

-- E-Science --

* E-science scoping study

-- Other --

* An Investigation into Free E-Books
* Making the LEAP: linking electronic archives and publications

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