New year, new team members! TAGS: staff The Research Data Support team has had some noteworthy changes in the last few months. Longtime staff member Pauline Ward has embraced a new management role as Data Repository Operations …Continue reading →

Open Research Support at Russell Group Universities As part of my work as Research Data Steward, I was asked by our Open Research Co-ordinator to investigate the open research support available at Russell Group universities and how …Continue reading →

New data archiving unit in MANTRA TAGS: MANTRA Summertime is always a good time to renew and refresh – including open educational resources like Research Data MANTRA, https://mantra.ed.ac.uk, a free online course “for those who manage digital data …Continue reading →

Edinburgh Open Research Conference Proceedings TAGS: conference | EOR One of the ambitions for the EOR conference held in March, 2022, when we first started planning it was to make it as open and accessible as possible. To achieve …Continue reading →

It Is Our Mantra TAGS: conference | MANTRA Last week I was honoured to accept an invitation to speak at the Library Technology Conclave at Somaiya Vidyavihar University in Mumbai, India, organised by Informatics Limited and the University. …Continue reading →

Simon Smith joins the Research Data Support Team TAGS: staff It has been a long pandemic, and some bright spots are beginning to appear on the horizon. One of them is that we have a new professional joining our team, …Continue reading →

University of Edinburgh’s new Research Data Management Policy TAGS: policy | Research Data Following a year-long consultation with research committees and other stakeholders, a new RDM Policy (www.ed.ac.uk/is/research-data-policy) has replaced the landmark 2011 policy, authored by former Digital Curation Centre Director, Chris Rusbridge, …Continue reading →

New Research Data Stewards in post TAGS: research support | staff Very soon we will sadly say goodbye to Gina Geffers, who, along with Sam Hillman, have become our first Research Data Steward veterans. But we are very pleased to welcome …Continue reading →

Data Mindfulness training integrated in new resources TAGS: Data mindfulness The Research Data Service is pleased to announce an update to our ‘Data Mindfulness: Making the Most of Your Dissertation Data’ training materials. Originally developed to provide face to face …Continue reading →

New home for Edinburgh Research Data Blog! TAGS: blog | data | datablog | Edinburgh | Edinburgh DataShare | Edinburgh DataVault | Edinburgh Research Data Blog | MANTRA | Research Data | Research Data Management | Research Data Service | University of Edinburgh Tempus fugit. This Data Blog, which has been going since 2013 is now moving to Edinburgh University Libraryblogs. This follows the 2018 organisational merger of the Data Library team at …Continue reading →