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July 27, 2024
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 →
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 →
Community of Edinburgh Research Software Engineers (CERSE): Reflections on the 7th meeting TAGS: research support In this blog Dr Eleni Kotoula, Lead Research Facilitator at the University of Edinburgh, writes about the CERSE and their most recent event. What is CERSE? CERSE is a community …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 →
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 →
New video about the Research Data Service TAGS: RDM services The Research Data Service team is delighted to announce a new resource to help researchers and research support staff become familiar with the wide range of tools and support that …Continue reading →
Aerial Digimap data: The mapping service where it’s always sunny TAGS: Digimap | Mapping The latest Digimap addition is aerial photo images, covering the whole of Great Britain to 25cm precision. The University of Edinburgh has just subscribed to Aerial Digimap, so the great …Continue reading →
Archival Provenance Project: Emily’s finds
My name is Emily, and I’m the second of the two archive interns that...
Archival Provenance Project: a glimpse into the university’s history through some of its oldest manuscripts
My name is Madeleine Reynolds, a fourth year PhD candidate in History of Art....
Sustainable Exhibition Making: Recyclable Book Cradles
In this post, our Technician, Robyn Rogers, discusses the recyclable book cradles she has developed...
Giving Decorated Paper a Home … Rehousing Books and Paper Bindings
In the first post of this two part series, our Collection Care Technician, Robyn Rogers,...