Dabbling in data visualisation Martin Hawksey from CETIS at University of Strathclyde gave a talk to Information Services staff last week on this popular topic. Following the talk, a small group including the Data …Continue reading →

An insight into institutional RDM I attended the Jisc Managing Research Data Programme Workshop in Birmingham on 25-26 March on behalf of the University of Edinburgh and gained a real insight into how other institutions are …Continue reading →

Sharing Edinburgh’s RDM lessons with other Scottish HEIs In the interest of sharing Research Data Management (RDM) lessons with the wider community, Edinburgh University hosted a seminar for Higher Education Information Directors Scotland (HEIDS) and Scottish Confederation of …Continue reading →

Curriculum development for digital curators The Framing the Digital Curation Curriculum Conference, held in the grand surroundings of Banca CR Firenze, Florence on 6-7 May 2013, was organised by the DigCurV project funded by the …Continue reading →

Where the data people meet: IASSIST Last week I had the pleasure of attending IASSIST 2013 in Cologne, the annual conference of an international membership organisation of data librarians and data archivists, hosted by GESIS, the …Continue reading →

Background to the Edinburgh Research Data Blog Since the University Senate passed the Research Data Management Policy in May, 2011, Information Services has been working with others across the University to determine how best to implement the …Continue reading →

The earliest missionary editions TAGS: Bible | China | Chinese | missions | World Christianity Interesting blog entry on Protestant missionary material in Chinese by David Helliwell, Curator of Chinese Collections, Bodleian Library

(SLIDES) Sir John Sinclair, the County Agricultural Surveys and the Collections and Dissemination of Knowledge (1793-1817) Presented by Heather Holmes at the 17 November 2011 meeting of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society. Sir John Sinclair, the county surveys and the collection and dissemination of knowledge from EDINA, …Continue reading →

What has changed ? (1) HEFCE has introduced the requirement that outputs submitted to the next REF be made available in an open-access form. (2) To be eligible, authors’ final peer reviewed manuscripts must …Continue reading →

What do I have to do ? (1) Create a new record in PURE including the following metadata : title of the research output name of the author(s) year of publication title of the journal where it …Continue reading →