AI, Openness & Future Publishing – Event summary TAGS: open data This is a guest blog post written by Veronica Cano, Open Data and REF Manager The CAHSS Research Cultures team organised the half-day event “AI, Openness & Publishing Futures”, which …Continue reading →

Digital Research Services: What’s on This Semester TAGS: conference | research support | workshops This a guest blog post written by Dr Eleonora Mameli, Research Facilitator in the Digital Research Services team. To help the research community get the best out of the University’s digital …Continue reading →

Reflections on CoLIS 2025 TAGS: Humanities data The end of May and start of June is always a busy time for conferences and this year has been no exception. Luckily, at the start of June, I was …Continue reading →

DataShare spotlight: Debates on slavery and abolition held by student debating societies at the University of Edinburgh, 1765-1870 TAGS: DataShare | Decolonisation | historical data The best part of my job is looking through the new datasets submitted to DataShare, our open-access data repository. One of the first datasets that gripped me was; Debates on …Continue reading →

DataShare spotlight: Human MotionLess Dataset (HuMoLs) and the creative potential of research data TAGS: data reuse | DataShare | Edinburgh DataShare | open data | videos For the second installment of the spotlight on DataShare blog posts, I would like to showcase a fascinating item containing videos of people not doing anything! The dataset in question …Continue reading →

Outstanding Library Team of the Year – Times Higher Education Awards 2024 TAGS: citizen science | Research Data Service | research support This is a guest blog post written by Dominic Tate, Associate Director, Head of Library Research Support The University of Edinburgh’s Library Research Support Team, of which the Research Data …Continue reading →

Protocols.io Update TAGS: Research Data Service Our Open Research Coordinator, Kerry Miller, has written the following update to users of the protocols.io platform at the University of Edinburgh. While this relates directly to researchers at the …Continue reading →

Library Research Support Shortlisted for Times Higher Education Award TAGS: Library Research Support | Research Data Service | Times Higher Education Awards This is a guest blog post written by Dominic Tate, Associate Director, Head of Library Research Support We were delighted to learn that the Library Research Support Team, of which …Continue reading →

DataShare spotlight: History, Classics and Archaeology in DataShare TAGS: data reuse | Digital Preservation | Edinburgh DataShare | Humanities data | open data To celebrate World Digital Preservation Day 2024, this is the first in a series of occasional blog posts which seek to shine a light on some interesting examples of datasets …Continue reading →

Evelyn Williams, new Research Data Support Assistant TAGS: DataShare | Research Data Service | staff Hello, readers of Edinburgh Research Data Blog! Last month I joined the University’s Research Data Service team as a Research Data Support Assistant, and I’m excited to be back at …Continue reading →