Who else thinks digital archiving in archaeology is important?
Funding agencies for British Archaeology recognize the importance of long-term preservation of the intellectual resources they pay to create. The British Academy, which funds the British schools abroad; the Wellcome Trust; the Leverhulme Foundation; and the Economic and Social Research Council all either recommend or require that grantees deposit digital data with the AHDS or one of its service providers. Archaeological bodies also recognize the importance of digital archiving and, more importantly, the connection of existing archives through a metadata catalogue. This is clear from examination of the membership list for the ADS Advisory Committee. The membership of the committee includes nearly two dozen trusts, museums groups, preservation organizations, and academic societies throughout the UK, all of which are concerned with this issue. Specific archaeologists and archaeological bodies have dedicated even more of their time to ensuring the ADS runs properly. The ADS is managed by a
