Research Data Training: Semester 1 2020/21 A universal truth: things are a bit weird just now. So over the past few months we have been working hard to convert our popular face-to-face training workshops for online …Continue reading →

Preparing the Way This week our project archivist gives us the inside view from our Body Language Archives project, bringing us on (the project management) board, with a review of project progress and …Continue reading →

NEW Further Charles Lyell Papers July was a busy month for the Sir Charles Lyell Collection, and the Centre for Research Collections. After much planning and advice, the CRC passed inspection, and we opened again …Continue reading →

The Humble Spider – A Measure of Moral Character in Physical Education TAGS: andrew carnegie | Carnegie Dunfermline Trust | Corson | DCPE | DCPE OSA | Dunfermline | Dunfermline Abbey | Dunfermline College of Physical Education | Dunfermline College of Physical Education Old Students' Association | folklore | Physical Education | Robert the Bruce | Sir Walter Scott | spider | Tales of A Grandfather In this week’s blog post we take a closer look at the Dunfermline College of Physical Education Archives and attempt to join up the dots between the humble spider and …Continue reading →

Protocols.io trial… six months on! We launched a trial of protocols.io Enterprise in December 2019, and a lot has been achieved in the first six months. The number of registered UoE users has increased from …Continue reading →

We Are Still Here! TAGS: DCPE | DCPE OSA | Dunfermline College of Education Old Students' Association | Dunfermline College of Physical Education | Scottish Gymnastics | Wellcome Research Resource Fund We are delighted to announce that thanks to generous support from the Wellcome Research Resource Fund, our Body Language archives project will now run until January 2021. It seemed a …Continue reading →

Two new Quick Guides for good Research Data Management The Research Data Support team have recently published two new Quick Guides, the latest in a series of short, user-friendly documents intended to help our research staff and students plan, …Continue reading →

Notebook No. 4 Update During this lockdown, the Lyell Project has been able to continue enhancing metadata, despite having no access to the Lyell notebooks, thanks to some quick digitisation done by the amazing …Continue reading →

‘Protecting sensitive data’: new MANTRA unit now available The Research Data Support team are pleased to announce a new update to MANTRA, the free and open online research data management training course. The new ‘Protecting sensitive data’ module …Continue reading →

The Not-So-Lonely Lockdown of the Transcribing Geologists Lockdown may seem frustrating and tiresome to some, but it has made space for a few spontaneous and unexpected collaborations! Over the last month with many “physical” tasks on hold, …Continue reading →