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Archaeology Data Service
The aim of the Archaeology Data Service (ADS) is to collect, describe, catalogue, preserve, and provide user support for digital resources that are created as a product of archaeological research. The ADS also has a responsibility for promoting standards and guidelines for best practice in the creation, description, preservation and use of archaeological information.
Preferred file formats are open stable formats suitable for preservation (may be converted to a more accessible web format for dissemination). A list can be found here: archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/advice/Downloads.xhtml.
Many different media types are supported for direct upload.
The ADS maintain multiple copies of data in order to facilitate disaster recovery and provide resilience. The University of York provides short and medium-term storage of all datasets held by the repository. All data is stored on a pair of Dell Compellent enterprise storage arrays (current capacity ~1Pb), located in two different data centres. The UoY ITS use Linear Tape-Open (LTO-6) for 90-day backups. UoY ITS plan to continue to migrate to newer LTO versions (with greater durability and storage capacity) as a matter of course; migrating to newer LTO versions will help to ensure against media deterioration. The ADS has implemented cloud-based storage via Amazon Web Services (AWS) for long-term/deep storage of the off-site backup only.
Charges are made on a per-file basis.
The Thoth Wiki has been developed in the context of the COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) project. Individual contributions to the wiki have been made by Tim Elfenbein, Joanne Fitzpatrick, Rupert Gatti, Ross Higman, Hannah Hillen, Brendan O'Connell, Tobias Steiner, and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei under the general editorship of Van Gerven Oei. All data are available under a CC-BY 4.0 license.