D9.1 Quantity of Access Offered - TA2
Nicky Garland · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2022
This deliverable describes the Trans National Access (TNA) activities carried out during the ARIADNEplus project within Work Package 9 (WP9.1) by the Archaeology Data Service, University York, UK. This deliverable describes the aims and objectives of the training activities, the results achieved by this work package and a review of the feedback provided by the participants. The training for the first TNA call was undertaken in February 2020, however, only some of the participants were able to attend. Due to the COVID pandemic the remaining participants were transferred to the second TNA call, which was announced in February 2022. The training activity for this call initially consisted of an online four-week Summer School between the 4th May to 1st June 2022. However, this training course was postponed due to the low number of participants. The training activities were rescheduled in October 2022. Instead, an online Winter School programme was designed and delivered to suit the requirements of the participants. The Winter School programme was divided into four thematic sessions delivered over a four-week period from the 15th November to the 7th December 2022. The four thematic sessions included; Introducing the Archaeology Data Service, Data Management, Digital Preservation and Quality Assurance & Data Reuse. In addition to the main schedule, two additional special events were presented by external speakers on topics of interest to the participants. These two events included a discussion of The Dig Digital online toolkit, developed by DigVentures in partnership with Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA), and the Community Owned Preservation Tools Registry (COPTR) tools as developed and curated by the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC). Overall, ADS was able to deliver training to eight students in total (nine offers were made but one had to drop out at the last minute), fulfilling the target of seven accesses minimum. Following the training events, the project participants were asked to complete the TNA summary user report to provide feedback on the organisation of the Data Stewardship Schools and the quality of training delivered. The feedback from participants suggests that the participants were highly satisfied with the contents of the course and the resources produced and that the training had tangible benefits to both their projects and current positions.