AHRC AHDS closure decision 2007-2008

Arts and Humanities Research Council decision to discontinue AHDS co-funding, announced March 2007, effective March 31, 2008. Digital Curation Centre, "Arts and Humanities Data Service decision," dcc.ac.uk/news/arts-and-humanities-data-service-decision. Arts and Humanities Data Service, Wikipedia.

Key facts: Five centres (Archaeology, History, Literature/Languages/Linguistics, Performing Arts, Visual Arts). Archaeology Data Service continued at University of York; History Data Service collections transferred to UK Data Archive at Essex; Visual Arts continued as VADS. Performing Arts had no direct successor.

Use: E-0022, C-0020.

Original whitepaper reference: [36]