Welcome to the new Research Data Management Service Coordinator: Stuart Macdonald We welcome Stuart Macdonald to the position of Research Data Management Service Coordinator, as a 1-year secondment for the current post-holder. Stuart will continue the work of developing the research …Continue reading →

Dealing with Data – Call For Papers Dealing with Data Conference 2014 Call for Papers Date: Tuesday 26th August 2014, 9am – 1pm Including a formal launch of the University Research Data Management services by the Principal …Continue reading →

Open data repository – file size analysis The University of Edinburgh’s open data sharing repository, DataShare, has been running since 2009.  During this time, over 125 items of research data have been published online. This blog post …Continue reading →

IDCC 2014 – take home thoughts A few weeks ago I attended the 9th International Digital Curation Conference in San Francisco.  The conference was spread over four days, with two days for workshops, and two for …Continue reading →

Thinking about a Data Vault TAGS: data asset register | DataVault | Digital Preservation | private data [Reposted from https://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/blog/2013/12/20/thinking-about-a-data-vault/] In a recent blog post, we looked at the four quadrants of research data curation systems.  This categorised systems that manage or describe research data assets by whether …Continue reading →

Thinking about Research Data Asset Registers [Reposted from https://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/blog/2013/12/12/thinking-about-research-data-asset-registers/] In my last blog post, I looked at the four quadrants of research data curation systems.  This categorised systems that manage or describe research data assets by whether …Continue reading →

Welcome to the new Research Data Management Service Coordinator: Kerry Miller We have great pleasure in welcoming a new member of staff to the research data management programme.  Kerry Miller has joined us in the role of Research Data Management Service …Continue reading →

The four quadrants of research data curation systems TAGS: data asset register | data curation | DataVault | metadata | private data [Reposted from https://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/blog/2013/12/06/the-four-quadrants-of-research-data-curation-systems/] The University of Edinburgh, like many other universities, is currently undertaking extensive work to build infrastructure that supports and enables good practice in the area of Research Data …Continue reading →

Issues for research software preservation [Reposted from https://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/blog/2013/09/18/research-software-preservation/] Twelve years ago I was working as a research assistant on an EPSRC funded project.  My primary role was to write software that allowed vehicle wiring to be …Continue reading →