Fostering open science in social science On 10th of June, the Data Library team ran two workshops in association with the EU Horizon 2020 project, FOSTER (Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research), and the Scottish …Continue reading →

Data Visualisation with D3 workshop Last week I attended the 4th HSS Digital Day of Ideas 2015. Amongst networking and some interesting presentations on the use of digital technologies in humanities research (the two presentations …Continue reading →

Highlights from the RDM Programme Progress Report: Jan – Feb 2015 TAGS: DataVault The Library and University Collections (L&UC) in association with project partner Manchester University received funding from the Jisc “Research Data Spring” programme to define and develop an open source Data …Continue reading →

Managing data: photographs in research In collaboration with Scholarly Communications, the Data Library participated in the workshop “Data: photographs in research” as part of a series of workshops organised by Dr Tom Allbeson and Dr Ella …Continue reading →

Digital Scholarship Day of Ideas: Data The theme of this year’s ‘Digital Scholarship Day of Ideas’ (14th May) focused on ‘data’ and what data is for the humanities and social sciences. This post summarises the presentation …Continue reading →

Non-standard research outputs TAGS: arts data | data curation | DCC | Humanities data I recently attended (13th May 2014) the one-day ‘Non-standard Research Outputs’ workshop at Nottingham Trent University. [ 1 ] The day started with Prof Tony Kent and his introduction to …Continue reading →

New Data Curation Profiles: Edinburgh College of Art Jane Furness, Academic Support Librarian, Edinburgh College of Art, has contributed two new data curation profiles to the DIY RDM Training Kit for Librarians on the MANTRA website. One data …Continue reading →

SCAPE workshop (notes, part 2) Drawing on my notes from the SCAPE (Scalable Preservation Environments) workshop I attended last year, here is a summary of the presentation delivered by Peter May (BL) and the activities that …Continue reading →

SCAPE workshop (notes, part 1) The aim of the SCAPE workshop was to show participants how to cope with large data volumes by using automation and preservation tools developed and combined as part of the SCAPE …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 →