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ADS Grey Literature Library

Created by Paul Wheatley on Sep 27, 2011 · last edited by Jenny Mitcham · on Sep 28, 2011 (view history) · 9 versions

Title	*ADS Grey Literature Library*
Description	This collection is owned by the Archaeology Data Service. It is a library of unpublished fieldwork reports recording the results of archaeological fieldwork in the UK. Currently holds over 11,000 reports and increases by around 200 reports per month. Reports are mainly delivered to the ADS via an on-line web form and are uploaded as pdf or word files. These need to be migrated to suitable preservation formats for our archive.
Licensing	*Non-exclusive licence to distribute and to take relevant preservation actions.*
Owner	Lots of different owners - the fieldworkers that supply the reports.
Dataset Location	http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/greylit/
Collection Champion	*Jen Mitcham, ADS*
Issues brainstorm	PDF to PDF/A conversion PDF to PDF-A conversion Extracting embedded objects from docx files Extracting embedded objects from docx files Checking that significant properties are retained after a conversion Checking that significant properties are preserved after migration Automatic extraction of metadata from a grey literature file Automatically extracting metadata for Grey Literature reports
List of Issues