Arts And Humanities Data Service Article Index for
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Information About

Arts And Humanities Data Service




Organised via a Managing Executive at King's College London and five AHDS Centres, hosted by various UK Higher Education Institutions, the AHDS is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee and the Arts And Humanities Research Council .

The five subject-based AHDS Centres are


Specific areas of work that the Arts and Humanities Data Service covers include
  • Digital Preservation - Including a series of preservation handbooks detailing specific preservation issues with various digital file formats and information on its digital repository

  • Advice on digitisation - Including a series of case studies of existing digitisation projects, information papers on specific issues in digitiation, and longer Guides to Good Practice dealing with digitsation topics in particular arts and humanities disciplines

  • Online collections created by universities and museums in the UK. These include

  • --- An online catalogue with details of collections held within the archive

  • --- Designing Shakespeare - 40 years of Shakesperian performance in London and Stratford