Collections from the Arts and Humanities Data Service AHDS http:ahds'ac'uk

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Collectionsfrom the Arts and HumanitiesData
Service (AHDS)http//ahds.ac.uk/
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How is the AHDS Organised?

• Established in 1996

• AHDS Executive(Kings 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)

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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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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

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• 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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Archaeology Collections

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• 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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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/col
  lections/about.htm