EPSRC Expectations Awareness Survey As many of you will already know EPSRC set out its research data management (RDM) expectations for institutions in receipt of EPSRC grant funding in May 2011, this included the …Continue reading →

Highlights from the RDM Programme Progress Report: Nov – Dec 2014 Key results from the regular RDM Programme Progress Reports presented to both RDM Steering Committee and Action Group. Full RDM progress Reports can be viewed on the RDM programme Wiki …Continue reading →

An Exhibition in a Day As part of the University of Edinburgh’s Innovative Learning Week, the Centre for Research Collections ran a joint event between Conservation, Exhibitions and Archives entitled ‘An Exhibition in a Day’. …Continue reading →

Reflections on IDCC 2015: How the 80/20 rule applies to Research Data Management tools RDM Tools need to be usable by a defined and significant set of researchers A key question for universities considering which RDM tools to adopt is how broadly useful each …Continue reading →

Leading a Digital Curation ‘Lifestyle’: First day reflections on IDCC15 [First published on the DCC Blog, republished here with permission.] Okay that title is a joke, but an apt one to name a brief reflection of this year’s International Digital …Continue reading →

Managing data: photographs in research In collaboration with Scholarly Communications, the Data Library participated in the workshop “Data: photographs in research” as part of a series of workshops organised by Dr Tom Allbeson and Dr Ella …Continue reading →

The Working Lives of Ordinary Scots We know shockingly little of how ordinary Scottish people spent their working lives in the past. We know even less about the work women did. An intriguing comment by the …Continue reading →

Capturing the Moment on Glass Plate Negatives I recently attended a one-day workshop at the RCAHMS conservation studio regarding the preservation and conservation of glass plate negatives. The day was split roughly into two parts, with the …Continue reading →

About the Project Welcome to the Fairbairn Blog. William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn (1889-1964) was a leading psychoanalyst whose pioneering work helped children suffering from trauma in the early 20th century. His personal library …Continue reading →

A gutsy project: A heart to heart with the new girl If you didn’t guess from the anatomical pun title, this blog post details the beginnings of my 10-week internship conserving the Thomson-Walker collection at The Centre for Research Collections conservation …Continue reading →