Data Management Training – Autumn 2025 TAGS: postgraduate training | Research Data Service | workshops University of Edinburgh courses are now available to book on all topics dealing with research data management. Aimed at postgraduate research students and academic staff, these four courses are taught …Continue reading →

US Government Data: Lost and Found TAGS: Data Rescue Project | Research Data | Research Data Service Actions by the current US Trump administration (and others, including Trump’s first term) have spurred archivists, librarians and activists to archive, capture, collect, crawl, hoard, mirror, preserve, rescue, track and …Continue reading →

Outstanding Library Team of the Year – Times Higher Education Awards 2024 TAGS: citizen science | Research Data Service | research support This is a guest blog post written by Dominic Tate, Associate Director, Head of Library Research Support The University of Edinburgh’s Library Research Support Team, of which the Research Data …Continue reading →

Protocols.io Update TAGS: Research Data Service Our Open Research Coordinator, Kerry Miller, has written the following update to users of the protocols.io platform at the University of Edinburgh. While this relates directly to researchers at the …Continue reading →

Library Research Support Shortlisted for Times Higher Education Award TAGS: Library Research Support | Research Data Service | Times Higher Education Awards This is a guest blog post written by Dominic Tate, Associate Director, Head of Library Research Support We were delighted to learn that the Library Research Support Team, of which …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 →

Skills4EOSC fellowship TAGS: MANTRA | open science | RDM services | Research Data Service This is a guest blog post from Clara Parente Boavida, about her fellowship with the Research Data Service as part of a European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) project. My name …Continue reading →

Digital Curation Interviews project with DCC TAGS: Research Data Service In this guest blog post, Clara Lines Diaz reports on last year’s Digital Curation Interviews with University of Edinburgh researchers, conducted by the Digital Curation Centre (DCC) on behalf of …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 →

New home for Edinburgh Research Data Blog! TAGS: blog | data | datablog | Edinburgh | Edinburgh DataShare | Edinburgh DataVault | Edinburgh Research Data Blog | MANTRA | Research Data | Research Data Management | Research Data Service | University of Edinburgh Tempus fugit. This Data Blog, which has been going since 2013 is now moving to Edinburgh University Libraryblogs. This follows the 2018 organisational merger of the Data Library team at …Continue reading →