Lunchtime Seminar Series – digestible bites of knowledge on data and computing tools at the University of Edinburgh TAGS: DRS 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 →

How to find your way around the vast portfolio of Digital Research Resources  TAGS: Digital research Guest blog post by Dr André de Araújo Vieira,                                            …Continue reading →

Coming full circle TAGS: open data | research support The ins, outs and upside downs of Digital Research Services and lessons learned in the process. I’ve spent the past three months working as a Researcher-in-Residence for Digital Research Services …Continue reading →

Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2023: in summary TAGS: EORC This is a guest post by the Library’s new Citizen Science Engagement Officer, Neil Coleman. All of the materials from the conference may be found on the Edinburgh Open Research …Continue reading →

Digital Research Services: How we can support your research TAGS: DRS [This is a guest blog post by our new DRS Facilitator Sarah Janac. The Research Data Service is one of a number of digital research services at the University of …Continue reading →

New data archiving unit in MANTRA TAGS: MANTRA 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 →

Edinburgh Open Research Conference Proceedings TAGS: conference | EOR One of the ambitions for the EOR conference held in March, 2022, when we first started planning it was to make it as open and accessible as possible. To achieve …Continue reading →

It Is Our Mantra TAGS: conference | MANTRA Last week I was honoured to accept an invitation to speak at the Library Technology Conclave at Somaiya Vidyavihar University in Mumbai, India, organised by Informatics Limited and the University. …Continue reading →

University of Edinburgh’s new Research Data Management Policy TAGS: policy | Research Data 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 →

Data Mindfulness training integrated in new resources TAGS: Data mindfulness The Research Data Service is pleased to announce an update to our ‘Data Mindfulness: Making the Most of Your Dissertation Data’ training materials. Originally developed to provide face to face …Continue reading →