Highlights from the RDM Programme Progress Report: May 2015 Work was completed on collating and assembling 17 self-assessment statements for Edinburgh DataShare’s Data Seal of Approval application for trusted digital repository status. ‘Recommended File Formats’ and ‘Trustworthiness’ pages have …Continue reading →

Cataloguing on Alma Since Alma go-live on Monday June 29th, the Metadata Team have been working with colleagues in Acquisitions Services and Electronic Resources to develop new, streamlined workflows for managing new acquisitions. Alma treats …Continue reading →

Analytics platform trial Information Services is evaluating a new collaborative platform for data-science and analytics as part of its expanding portfolio of services for researchers. We are looking for researchers with suitable problems …Continue reading →

County Surveys Project Launches Online Bibliographic Tool We are pleased to report that the County Surveys of Great Britain 1793 – 1817 project, which is related to the Statistical Accounts, has now released an online bibliographic search …Continue reading →

Presenting the Data Vault Blog post by University of Manchester project developer Tom Higgins: Yesterday I gave a short presentation on the Data Vault project at an event in Lancaster: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-data-management-solutions-for-your-needs-tickets-17100593335 I based this …Continue reading →

Data Vault hackathon The development model we chose for the Data Vault is to get us all in a room (Robin, Tom, Claire, Mary, Stuart) and to collaboratively develop the proof of concept …Continue reading →

Fostering open science in social science On 10th of June, the Data Library team ran two workshops in association with the EU Horizon 2020 project, FOSTER (Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research), and the Scottish …Continue reading →

ArchivesSpace at the University of Edinburgh – the techie side TAGS: API | Archives | ArchivesSpace | Development Introducing ArchivesSpace for researchers and public users, as well as the administrative side for our Archives Team within the Centre for Research Collections, has been an ongoing project for the …Continue reading →

Implementing ArchivesSpace Meeting our Needs Since the early 2000s we have been looking for suitable software to manage our archives in a holistic manner. We began to deliver online catalogues at this …Continue reading →

Open Repositories 2015 TAGS: crowdsourcing | dspace | gamification | Metadata Games | Open Repositories | technology Last week I was very fortunate to attend the Open Repositories Conference in Indianapolis. Where I was co-authoring a presentation on metadata games with Tiltfactor, Dartmouth College, and also co-chairing the …Continue reading →