Dollymania – Seven Days that Shook the World TAGS: biotechnology | cloning | dolly the sheep | roslin institute 1997 was quite a significant year for the Roslin Institute with “’Dolly, the sheep, ‘…the first mammal cloned from a cell from an adult animal…generated an amazing amount of interest …Continue reading →

Thinking about Research Data Asset Registers [Reposted from https://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/blog/2013/12/12/thinking-about-research-data-asset-registers/] In my last blog post, I looked at the four quadrants of research data curation systems.  This categorised systems that manage or describe research data assets by whether …Continue reading →

Thinking about Research Data Asset Registers TAGS: Library | Research Data In my last blog post, I looked at the four quadrants of research data curation systems.  This categorised systems that manage or describe research data assets by whether their primary …Continue reading →

The Story of One TAGS: Ann Lingard | Cafe Scientifique | Cognitive ageing | Fionna Carmichael | Linda Kosciewicz-Fleming | Lothian Birth Cohorts | Michael Davenport | poetry | Professor Ian Deary | World War 2 | World War II In 1932 and 1947, every 11 year old child in Scotland was given an intelligence test*.  This fact is referred to throughout the blog. Its the reason Thomson was famous …Continue reading →

Hydra, SPSS journal, publishes second issue TAGS: journal hosting service | journals | OJS | open access | Open Journal Systems | SPSS Hydra, the postgraduate journal for the School of Social and Political Science has published its second issue on the University’s Journal Hosting Platform. Hydra’s mission is to strengthen dialogue in …Continue reading →

Welcome to the new Research Data Management Service Coordinator: Kerry Miller We have great pleasure in welcoming a new member of staff to the research data management programme.  Kerry Miller has joined us in the role of Research Data Management Service …Continue reading →

New staff member: Kerry Miller TAGS: Library | New Staff | Research Data Library & University Collections has great pleasure in welcoming a new member of staff to its ranks.  Kerry Miller has joined us in the role of Research Data Management Service …Continue reading →

CENSORED! Last week I was sent a wonderful book, Deletrix – a collaboration between the artist Joan Fontcuberta, Catalan PEN and Arts Santa Mònica and it explores censorship and violence done …Continue reading →

BAG: The Student Magazine TAGS: 1970 | Archives | BAG | DJCAD | ECA | GSA | Student Magazine Exciting morning so far! We’ve been sorting through prints and posters for the ECA collections and found something interesting… Earlier in the year we posted a story in the archives …Continue reading →

New research data storage The latest BITS magazine for University of Edinburgh staff (Issue 8, Autumn/ Winter 2013) contains a lead article on new data storage facilities that Information Services have recently procured and …Continue reading →