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 →

FAIR dues to the Research Data Alliance It has been a while since we’ve blogged about the Research Data Alliance (RDA), and as an organisation it has come into its own since its beginnings in 2013. One …Continue reading →

We’re hiring! Information Services has a new vacancy for a Data Safe Haven Operations Assistant to work directly with the Data Safe Haven Manager in the Research Data Support Team in providing …Continue reading →

DataVault is now live After an extended development period, we are pleased to report an addition to the University of Edinburgh Research Data Service, adding value to research data for both researchers and their funders: DataVault – funded primarily by the university’s Digital Research Services programme – has gone live this week. DataVault is a companion service to DataShare, which is an institutional trusted digital repository for the deposit of datasets and related outputs by university researchers, to openly license and share them on the Web. DataVault consists of an online interface connected to infrastructure in the university’s data centres and a cloud storage account. The DataVault project has conducted performance and user acceptance testing. It is currently able to accept individual deposits up to 2 TB each, which will be increased as development and testing continue alongside the live service. Each research project can store contents in a single vault made up of any number of deposits.

Personal data: What does GDPR mean for your research data? TAGS: data protection | Video case studies It falls upon me to cover the ‘hot topic’ of research data and GDPR (European privacy legislation) just before a cold winter holiday break. This makes me feel like the …Continue reading →

New team members, new team! Time has passed, so inevitably we have said goodbye to some and hello to others on the Research Data Support team. Amongst other changes, all of us are now based together in Library & University Collections – organisationally, that is, while remaining located in Argyle House with the rest of the Research Data Service providers such as IT Infrastructure. (For an interview with the newest team member there, David Fergusson, Head of Research Services, see this month’s issue of BITS.) So two teams have come together under Research Data Support as part of Library Research Support, headed by Dominic Tate in L&UC. Those of us leaving EDINA and Data Library look back on a rich legacy dating back to the early 1980s when the Data Library was set up as a specialist function within computing services. We are happy to become ‘mainstreamed’ within the Library going forward, as research data support becomes an essential function of academic librarianship all over the world*. Of course we will continue to collaborate with EDINA for software engineering requirements and new projects.