Data-X Symposium Registrations have been coming in thick and fast for the Data-X Symposium to be held on 1 December, Main Lecture theatre, Edinburgh College of Art (programme below). Data-X is a …Continue reading →

DATA-X Workshop 2 We are holding our second DATA-X workshop on Wednesday 15 June at the James Clerk Maxwell Building, Room 3217 and are inviting PhD students and technologists to come along and …Continue reading →

Edinburgh DataShare receives ‘Data Seal of Approval’ Earlier this week DataShare received the Data Seal of Approval – a peer review certification for trusted digital repository (TDR) status. The award is reviewed every two-years. Edinburgh DataShare self-assessment …Continue reading →

Highlights from the RDM Programme Progress Report: May 2015 Work was completed on collating and assembling 17 self-assessment statements for Edinburgh DataShare’s Data Seal of Approval application for trusted digital repository status. ‘Recommended File Formats’ and ‘Trustworthiness’ pages have …Continue reading →

Highlights from the RDM Programme Progress Report: Mar. & Apr. 2015 9 EPSRC grant holders and researchers were interviewed as follow-up to the EPSRC Expectations Awareness Survey conducted in February. A new leaflet detailing all systems in the RDM portfolio is …Continue reading →

EPSRC Expectations Awareness Survey As many of you will already know EPSRC set out its research data management (RDM) expectations for institutions in receipt of EPSRC grant funding in May 2011, this included the …Continue reading →

Highlights from the RDM Programme Progress Report: Nov – Dec 2014 Key results from the regular RDM Programme Progress Reports presented to both RDM Steering Committee and Action Group. Full RDM progress Reports can be viewed on the RDM programme Wiki …Continue reading →

Research Data Spring – blooming great ideas ! TAGS: DataVault | MANTRA The University of Edinburgh have been busy putting ideas together for Jisc’s Research Data Spring project, part of the research at risk co-design challenge area, which aims to find new …Continue reading →

Sustainable software for research In an earlier blog post (October 2013) Stuart Lewis discussed the 4 aspects of software preservation as detailed in a paper by Matthews et al, A Framework for Software Preservation, …Continue reading →

Research Data Management (RDM) Surgery! We all know that Research Data Management (RDM) is one of the essential areas of responsible conduct of research don’t we! We also know that it provides a framework that …Continue reading →