DataShare Spotlight: A photographic record of a divided Berlin in the 1980’s TAGS: arts data | DataShare | Edinburgh DataShare Some of the most widely used datasets in DataShare are the collections of photographs of tower blocks and mass housing, both in the UK and internationally, created by Miles Glendinning, …Continue reading →

DataShare Spotlight: The Hiberlink project, and anticipating change in a data repository TAGS: archiving data | DataShare | Digital Preservation | metadata | reference rot | research integrity While looking through DataShare for datasets about research practice, I found the Hiberlink project dataset [1], which perfectly illustrates some of the challenges the changing digital research landscape poses to …Continue reading →

DataShare spotlight: Debates on slavery and abolition held by student debating societies at the University of Edinburgh, 1765-1870 TAGS: DataShare | Decolonisation | historical data The best part of my job is looking through the new datasets submitted to DataShare, our open-access data repository. One of the first datasets that gripped me was; Debates on …Continue reading →

DataShare spotlight: Human MotionLess Dataset (HuMoLs) and the creative potential of research data TAGS: data reuse | DataShare | Edinburgh DataShare | open data | videos For the second installment of the spotlight on DataShare blog posts, I would like to showcase a fascinating item containing videos of people not doing anything! The dataset in question …Continue reading →

Evelyn Williams, new Research Data Support Assistant TAGS: DataShare | Research Data Service | staff Hello, readers of Edinburgh Research Data Blog! Last month I joined the University’s Research Data Service team as a Research Data Support Assistant, and I’m excited to be back at …Continue reading →

Keith Munro, new Research Data Support Assistant TAGS: DataShare | staff Hello, my name is Keith Munro and on March 4th 2024 I began my new role as a Research Data Support Assistant. Immediately prior to joining the Research Data Service …Continue reading →

DataShare awarded CoreTrustSeal trustworthy repository status TAGS: CoreTrustSeal | DataShare | standards CoreTrustSeal has recognised Edinburgh DataShare as a trustworthy repository. What does this mean for our depositors? It means you can rest assured that we look after your data very carefully, …Continue reading →

Quicker, easier interface for DataVault TAGS: data archiving | DataShare | DataVault | Edinburgh DataVault | Research Data Service We are delighted to report that Edinburgh DataVault now has a quicker and easier process for users. The team have been working hard to overhaul the form for creating a …Continue reading →

Diverse climate change data in DataShare’s newest thematic collection TAGS: climate change | DataShare | open data | Software ‘Code red for humanity’ was the galvanising message of the sixth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published on 9 August. The report draws on thousands of academic …Continue reading →

The big 3-0-0-0: DataShare reaches three thousand datasets TAGS: DataShare We’re thrilled Edinburgh DataShare has just ingested its 3,000th deposit: Davey, Thomas; Draycott, Samuel; Pillai, Ajit; Gabl, Roman; Jordan, Laura-Beth. (2021). Wave buoy in current – experimental data, [dataset]. University …Continue reading →