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US Government Data: Lost and Found TAGS: | | Actions by the current US Trump administration (and others, including Trump’s first term) have spurred archivists, librarians and activists to archive, capture, collect, crawl, hoard, mirror, preserve, rescue, track and …Continue reading →

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DataShare spotlight: Debates on slavery and abolition held by student debating societies at the University of Edinburgh, 1765-1870 TAGS: | | The best part of my job is looking through the new datasets submitted to DataShare, our open-access data repository. One of the first datasets that gripped me was; Debates on …Continue reading →

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DataShare spotlight: Human MotionLess Dataset (HuMoLs) and the creative potential of research data TAGS: | | | | For the second installment of the spotlight on DataShare blog posts, I would like to showcase a fascinating item containing videos of people not doing anything! The dataset in question …Continue reading →

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DataShare spotlight: History, Classics and Archaeology in DataShare TAGS: | | | | To celebrate World Digital Preservation Day 2024, this is the first in a series of occasional blog posts which seek to shine a light on some interesting examples of datasets …Continue reading →

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Lunchtime Seminar Series – digestible bites of knowledge on data and computing tools at the University of Edinburgh TAGS: For 2023/2024, Digital Research Services have organised a new iteration of the Lunchtime Seminar Series. These one-hour hybrid seminars will examine different slices of the research lifecycle and introduce you …Continue reading →

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New feature: Sharing DataVault data with an external user TAGS: | By popular demand, the Research Data Service is pleased to announce the arrival of a brand new feature: the DataVault Outward Staging Area (DOSA), a free-of-charge benefit to DataVault depositors. …Continue reading →

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Open Research Support at Russell Group Universities As part of my work as Research Data Steward, I was asked by our Open Research Co-ordinator to investigate the open research support available at Russell Group universities and how …Continue reading →

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New data archiving unit in MANTRA TAGS: Summertime is always a good time to renew and refresh – including open educational resources like Research Data MANTRA, https://mantra.ed.ac.uk, a free online course “for those who manage digital data …Continue reading →

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Quicker, easier interface for DataVault TAGS: | | | | We are delighted to report that Edinburgh DataVault now has a quicker and easier process for users. The team have been working hard to overhaul the form for creating a …Continue reading →

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University of Edinburgh’s new Research Data Management Policy TAGS: | Following a year-long consultation with research committees and other stakeholders, a new RDM Policy (www.ed.ac.uk/is/research-data-policy) has replaced the landmark 2011 policy, authored by former Digital Curation Centre Director, Chris Rusbridge, …Continue reading →

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Default utility Image Archival Provenance Project: Emily’s finds               My name is Emily, and I’m the second of the two archive interns that...
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Default utility Image Documentation Challenges in Practice: Art Collection Barcoding Project In this week’s blog, our Art Collection Documentation Assistant Gaby Cortes discusses some of the...
Sustainable Exhibition Making: Recyclable Book Cradles In this post, our Technician, Robyn Rogers, discusses the recyclable book cradles she has developed...

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