Thinking about Research Data Asset Registers TAGS: Library | Research Data In my last blog post, I looked at the four quadrants of research data curation systems.  This categorised systems that manage or describe research data assets by whether their primary …Continue reading →

New staff member: Kerry Miller TAGS: Library | New Staff | Research Data Library & University Collections has great pleasure in welcoming a new member of staff to its ranks.  Kerry Miller has joined us in the role of Research Data Management Service …Continue reading →

Clerk Ranken TAGS: alumni | Chemistry | Clerk Ranken | students Clerk Ranken was born in 1880, Edinburgh.  Educated at George Heriot’s School, he then went to Edinburgh University, graduating BSc (Pure Science) in 1902, then DSc in 1907. He was …Continue reading →

Postgraduate Arts journal launches on hosting service TAGS: Forum | Library Learning Services | OJS | open access | Open Journal Systems FORUM, University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts officially launched on Friday 6th December 2013 to coincide with the publication of their seventeenth issue, Rites & Rituals. …Continue reading →

A game of two halves One of the photographs in the Alan Greenwood collection depicts a chicken. This is hardly unusual in itself, seeing as Greenwood was director of the Poultry Research Centre. However, a …Continue reading →

The four quadrants of Research Data Curation Systems TAGS: Library | Research Data The University of Edinburgh, like many other universities, is currently undertaking extensive work to build infrastructure that supports and enables good practice in the area of Research Data Management.  This …Continue reading →

Volunteer of the Month – November 2013 Emma Smith Exhibitions Intern and Volunteer I was the Exhibitions Intern based in the CRC during the summer and I was tasked with the planning, design and curation of an …Continue reading →

Calling all ECA alumni! TAGS: 1956 | alumni | Dog | ECA | ECA Theatre Group | James Bridie

The Power of Google… TAGS: Clave | ECA | Google | Inside Search | Picasso We’ve been using Google Inside Search to help us identify some prints in the collection. All you have to do is upload a photo and magically it can find it …Continue reading →

FAE Crew’s Off-Prints (1814-1940) TAGS: animal genetics | biology | birds | human genetics In addition to the off-prints of the various past organizations that made up the Roslin Institute, we have FAE Crew’s collection.  The majority of the off-prints in his collection, found …Continue reading →