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 →

Future of University of Edinburgh trusted research environments For the past few years, Information Services (ISG) have been providing a University Data Safe Haven (DSH) service, to host analysis of sensitive research data.  Alongside this, Edinburgh Parallel Computing …Continue reading →

End of an era – 2017-2020 RDM Roadmap Review (part 1) TAGS: Data Safe Haven | DataStore | DataSync | RDM services Looking back on three years that went into completing our RDM Roadmap in this period of global pandemic and working from home, feels a bit anti-climactic. Nevertheless, the previous three …Continue reading →

Welcome to Research Data Stewards – a new role This week the team is pleased to welcome two University of Edinburgh PhD students who have joined Research Data Support in a new Research Data Steward role. We were even …Continue reading →

Data Safe Haven new remote access feature The Research Data Service team is pleased to announce the availability of a new remote access feature of the University of Edinburgh Data Safe Haven (DSH). In response to the …Continue reading →

Dealing with Data 2019 (January 2020): Collaboration Across the Nations TAGS: conference | Dealing with Data | videos Picture the scene: A cold January day, the wind blowing the scarves of the passers-by through the large windows of the Informatics Forum meeting room. The group inside listens, takes …Continue reading →

A visit from the data jungle: My internship in research data management This is a guest post from Dr. Tamar Israeli, who completed a work/study internship with the Research Data Support team last Autumn. A link to her report is available below. …Continue reading →

New research data management tool on one-year trial: protocols.io Information Services aims to offer a research data service that meets most of the data lifecycle needs of the majority of UoE researchers without interfering with their freedom to choose …Continue reading →

Research Data Service achieves ISO 27001 accreditation for Data Safe Haven facility Following a five day on-site audit by Lloyd’s Register, the Information Security Management System (ISMS) which forms the basis for the Data Safe Haven facility for University of Edinburgh researchers …Continue reading →

Research Data Workshops: DataVault Summary Having soft-launched the DataVault facility in early 2019, the Research Data Support team -with the support of the project board – held five workshops in different colleges and locations to …Continue reading →