ADS+: Enhancing and Sustaining the Archaeology Data Service digital repository

ADS：增强和维持考古数据服务数字存储库

• 批准号: AH/H036768/1
• 负责人: Julian Richards
• 金额: $ 17.87万
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2010 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FH036768%2F1
• 关键词: ADS+; Enhancing; Sustaining; Archaeology; Data

The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) supports research, learning and teaching with high quality and dependable digital resources. It does this by preserving digital data in the long term, and by promoting and disseminating a broad range of data in archaeology. The ADS promotes good practice in the use of digital data in archaeology, it provides technical advice to the research community, and supports the deployment of digital technologies. It was founded in 1996 and has received support from AHRB/AHRC since 1998.The ADS now holds over one million metadata records providing pointers to digital resources covering the archaeology of the UK. It also holds the digital outputs of 25 AHRB/AHRC funded research projects, along with over 250 digital archives from projects funded by other bodies, including English Heritage, CADW, Historic Scotland, NERC, and the British Academy. These holdings represent primary data from unrepeatable excavations and research. They are essential to support the research environment of Archaeology in the UK, both in the academic sector, and beyond.Since its foundation ADS has developed a robust repository infrastructure, based around an Oracle database, a Java-based Collections Management system, and a suite of Unix servers, with onsite and offsite backup, and synchronization with the UK Data Archive in Essex. However, as ADS holdings have grown in size and number, and user expectations have also increased, this technical infrastructure has become a constraint upon enhanced access to ADS collections and, in its current form, would be costly to extend and maintain in the long term.Over the last 2-3 years the digital preservation community has embraced a software application known as Fedora (or Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture). Fedora is a digital asset management (DAM) architecture, upon which many types of digital library, institutional repositories, and digital archives, are now being built. The implementation of Fedora at ADS would streamline the long-term curation of existing archives and cut the cost of ingest of new archives. It would also enhance access to all ADS collections in an extremely powerful fashion. Currently, users can search for digital archives at collection level, and can then 'drill down' onto each archive to search for specific files of relevance to their particular research question. Fedora is structured around collections and individual files and would allow users to search across collections for individual digital objects. Therefore all ADS users would be enabled to search within and across archives, exploring and creating links between a wide range of rich digital resources. Furthermore, Fedora would also enhance the ability of ADS to allow external systems (including search engines such as Google, as well as other data aggregators) to interrogate and link to ADS holdings at the level of individual digital objects.However, whilst 'Out-of-the-box' Fedora includes the necessary software tools to ingest, manage, and provide basic delivery of objects it has few customised tools and requires extensive software development to tailor it to the data structures and user needs of specific archives. It is an Open Source solution, which means that whilst it is freely available to download and install, a specific implementation requires significant programming investment. The implementation of Fedora at ADS would also require significant migration of existing cataloguing data and metadata enhancement, if its full power is to be realised.The ADS+ project therefore requests funding for two people - an Applications Developer and a Curatorial Officer - for one year, in order to turn ADS into a Fedora repository consistent with international ISO standards.

考古数据服务（ADS）支持研究，学习和教学与高质量和可靠的数字资源。它通过长期保存数字数据，并通过促进和传播广泛的考古数据来实现这一目标。ADS促进在考古学中使用数字数据的良好做法，它为研究界提供技术咨询，并支持数字技术的部署。它成立于1996年，自1998年以来一直得到AHRB/AHRC的支持。ADS现在拥有超过100万条元数据记录，为涵盖英国考古学的数字资源提供指针。它还拥有25个AHRB/AHRC资助的研究项目的数字输出，沿着来自其他机构资助的项目的250多个数字档案，包括英国遗产，CADW，历史苏格兰，NERC和英国学院。这些藏品代表了来自不可重复的挖掘和研究的原始数据。他们是必不可少的支持考古学在英国的研究环境，无论是在学术界，超越。自成立以来，ADS已经开发了一个强大的存储库基础设施，围绕一个甲骨文数据库，基于Java的收藏管理系统，和一套Unix服务器，现场和异地备份，并与英国数据档案馆在埃塞克斯同步。然而，随着ADS持有量在规模和数量上的增长，以及用户期望值的提高，这种技术基础设施已成为加强对ADS收藏的访问的制约因素，在过去的2-3年里，数字保存社区已经接受了一个名为Fedora的软件应用程序（或灵活的可扩展数字对象存储库体系结构）。Fedora是一个数字资产管理（DAM）架构，许多类型的数字图书馆，机构存储库和数字档案馆都在其上构建。在ADS上实施Fedora将简化现有存档的长期管理，并降低新存档的摄取成本。它还将以极其强大的方式加强对所有ADS收藏的访问。目前，用户可以搜索数字档案在收集水平，然后可以“钻”到每个档案，以搜索相关的特定文件，他们的特定研究问题。Fedora是围绕集合和单个文件构建的，允许用户在集合中搜索单个数字对象。因此，所有ADS用户都可以在档案内部和档案之间进行搜索，探索和建立各种丰富数字资源之间的联系。此外，Fedora还将增强ADS允许外部系统（包括搜索引擎，如谷歌，以及其他数据聚合器），以询问和链接到ADS持有的个人数字对象的水平。然而，虽然“开箱即用”Fedora包括必要的软件工具，以摄取，管理，并提供对象的基本交付，它几乎没有定制的工具，需要大量的软件开发，以适应特定档案的数据结构和用户需求。它是一个开源解决方案，这意味着虽然它可以免费下载和安装，但特定的实现需要大量的编程投资。如果要实现Fedora的全部功能，在ADS上实施Fedora还需要对现有的编目数据和元数据进行大量的迁移。因此，ADS+项目要求为两个人提供一年的资金-一个应用程序开发人员和一个策展官员，以便将ADS变成符合国际ISO标准的Fedora仓库。

项目成果

Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology

全球考古百科全书

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_2121-2
• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: Richards J