AHDS Executive Projects

Current and Past AHDS Projects

Current and past projects involving the AHDS Executive

Current Projects

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

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

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

Past Projects - Completed 2007

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

Past Projects - Completed 2006

Stormont Papers
Digitising Northern Irish Parliamentary Papers, from 1921 to 1972

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

Past Projects - Completed 2005

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

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

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.

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

Past Projects - Completed 2003

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

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