Transcript Collections from the Arts and Humanities Data Service

Collections
from the
Arts and Humanities
Data Service (AHDS)
http://ahds.ac.uk/
http://ahds.ac.uk/
How is the AHDS Organised?
•
Established in 1996
• AHDS Executive
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(King’s College London)
• AHDS Literature, Languages
and Linguistics
(Archaeology Data Service,
University Of York)
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(UK Data Archive,
University Of Essex)
• Funded by JISC and AHRC
AHDS Performing Arts
(University Of Glasgow)
(Oxford Text Archive, Oxford Uni.)
• AHDS History
AHDS Archaeology
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AHDS Visual Arts
(University College for Creative
Arts, Farnham Campus)
http://ahds.ac.uk/
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
http://ahds.ac.uk/
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
http://ahds.ac.uk/
General AHDS Collections
• http://ahds.ac.uk/collections
• Searches through all AHDS collections
– Historical datasets
– Literary Texts
– Collections of images
– Archaeological Datasets
http://ahds.ac.uk/
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
http://ahds.ac.uk/
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
http://ahds.ac.uk/
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
http://ahds.ac.uk/
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
http://ahds.ac.uk/
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
http://ahds.ac.uk/
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.
http://ahds.ac.uk/
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
http://ahds.ac.uk/
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
http://ahds.ac.uk/
Archaeology Collections
• http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue
• 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
http://ahds.ac.uk/
Archaeology Collections
• http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue
• 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
http://ahds.ac.uk/
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
http://ahds.ac.uk/
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/collections/about.htm