Research Data Support team and DCC to host Skills4EOSC Fellow TAGS: open science University of Edinburgh has been chosen as one of 12 European institutions to host sponsored short secondments for data professionals in Open Science, as part of the Skills4EOSC Horizon Europe …Continue reading →

New feature: Sharing DataVault data with an external user TAGS: DataVault Outward Staging Area | DOSA 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 →

DataShare awarded CoreTrustSeal trustworthy repository status TAGS: CoreTrustSeal | DataShare | standards CoreTrustSeal has recognised Edinburgh DataShare as a trustworthy repository. What does this mean for our depositors? It means you can rest assured that we look after your data very carefully, …Continue reading →

Quicker, easier interface for DataVault TAGS: data archiving | DataShare | DataVault | Edinburgh DataVault | Research Data Service 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 →

Diverse climate change data in DataShare’s newest thematic collection TAGS: climate change | DataShare | open data | Software ‘Code red for humanity’ was the galvanising message of the sixth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published on 9 August. The report draws on thousands of academic …Continue reading →

The big 3-0-0-0: DataShare reaches three thousand datasets TAGS: DataShare We’re thrilled Edinburgh DataShare has just ingested its 3,000th deposit: Davey, Thomas; Draycott, Samuel; Pillai, Ajit; Gabl, Roman; Jordan, Laura-Beth. (2021). Wave buoy in current – experimental data, [dataset]. University …Continue reading →

DataVault ‘at 100’ – stories from our users TAGS: DataVault The DataVault now contains over one hundred datasets, with a combined size of over one hundred terabytes. These are the stories of a handful of our happy customers, talking about …Continue reading →

DataVault – larger deposits and new review process notifications TAGS: DataVault New deposit size limit: 10TB Great news for DataVault users: you can now deposit up to a whopping ten terabytes in a single deposit in the Edinburgh DataVault! That’s five …Continue reading →

“Archiving Your Data” – new videos from the Research Data Service TAGS: data reuse | DataShare | DataVault | videos In three new videos released today, researchers from the University of Edinburgh talk about why and how they archive their research data, and the ways in which they make their …Continue reading →

DataShare 3.0: The ‘Download Release’ means deposits up to 100 GB TAGS: big data | DataShare | RDM services With the DataShare 3.0 release, completed on 6 October, 2017, the data repository can manage data items of 100 GB. This means a single dataset of up to 100 GB …Continue reading →