[Medin_dacwg] First accredited MEDIN DAC for the Historic Environment

[Allen, Terence J.]

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The Archaeology Data Service -  the first accredited MEDIN DAC for the Historic Environment

The Archaeology Data Service has become the first accredited MEDIN DAC for the Marine Historic Environment.
MEDIN provides secure, long-term management of marine data sets through a network of Data Archive Centres (DACs), which promote the sharing of, and improved access to, that data. Members of the UK Heritage Community have agreed to adopt a coordinated management approach for Marine Historic Environment data, working within the MEDIN Framework.
In practical terms this means working towards the establishment of a "virtual" Data Archive Centre for Marine Historic Environment data, accredited as part of the MEDIN Data Archive Centre (DAC) Network. This "virtual" DAC will have a federal structure comprised of existing data management facilities at English Heritage, the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland (or the subsequent body formed by the merger with Historic Scotland), The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales, and the Archaeology Data Service.

The objective is to provide easier central access to all Marine Historic Environment data to all potential users, and to establish easy to use processes for archiving data within this "virtual" Marine Historic Environment DAC. Underpinning this approach is the continued requirement to provide a secure archive for these important historic records.

In becoming part of the MEDIN DAC network, the Marine Historic Environment DAC will be able to establish links with the other DACs that have expertise in different themes (geophysics, geology; marine species and habitats; water column oceanography; bathymetry), thus ensuring proper processes are in place for managing these data.

The Archaeology Data Service is the first of the heritage bodies to gain accreditation as a MEDIN DAC. The ADS is the mandated repository for archaeological research funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Natural Environment Research Council, and the recommended repository for other higher education funding bodies such as the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust. Unless otherwise agreed with the other UK heritage bodies, the ADS collecting remit will be: The geographical extent of English territorial waters where the archaeological field work or investigation has been undertaken as part of a planning/development led project, or where the work has been deposited with the ADS as the English Heritage-funded National Heritage Protection Commissions Programme project specified the ADS as the most appropriate archive holder.

The ADS works with national and local archaeological agencies and those research councils involved in the funding of archaeological research, to negotiate deposition of project data. This includes data derived from fieldwork as well as desk-based studies. The types of data deposited include: text reports, databases (related to excavated contexts or artefacts, for example), aerial photographs, remote sensing imagery, photographs of sites, features and artefacts, digitised maps and plans, numerical datasets related to topographical and sub-surface surveys and other locational data, as well as reconstruction drawings. The ADS was awarded the internationally recognised Data Seal of Approval in 2011 and the British Archaeological Award for Innovation in 2012 and most recently the prestigious Digital Preservation Coalition Decennial Award for the most outstanding contribution to digital preservation in the last decade.

The Marine Historic Environment DAC joins six other MEDIN data archive centres - covering sea floor geophysics and geology, water column oceanographic data, marine species and habitats, bathymetry, marine meteorological (metocean) data and fisheries data. http://www.oceannet.org/data_submission
For further information about the Marine Historic Environment DAC, contact ADS<mailto:help at archaeologydataservice.ac.uk> , or visit http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/



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Terry Allen | MEDIN Core Team | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network

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