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Dealing with Data 2015 – Presentations now available

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On the 31st August, over one hundred researchers from across the breadth of the University of Edinburgh met together in the Informatics Forum to discuss the challenges of dealing with the research data. Following-on from the 2014 conference of the same title, the event consisted of twenty presentations on this subject.

The event was opened by a keynote given by Prof Jonathan Silvertown, talking about his experiences of using crowd-sourced data from citizen scientists, and how to build mechanisms to ensure the quality of the data.

The rest of the day was filled with presentations addressing a wide range of data challenges, including topics such as data from the Large Hadron Collider, working with large data sets from China, and data derived from social media. At the end of the event, the topics were pulled together in a closing talk by Kevin Ashley, Director of the Digital Curation Centre.

If you attended Dealing with Data 2015, and have not already done so, could you please complete our brief survey at DwD2015 Feedback. It should only take 5 minutes and will help us to improve future events.

Programme with presentations

10:00 Welcome. Download PDF
10:05 Opening keynote: The Alchemy of Volunteered Data: turning base metal into gold, Prof Jonathan Silvertown, Institute of Evolutionary Biology. Download PDF

Session 1 – Informatics Forum
10:45 – 11:05: University data, open data and the Smart Data Hack, Ewan Klein, Informatics.
11:05 – 11:25: Edinburgh Data Science and Managing National Data Services at Edinburgh. Mark Parsons, EPCC. Download PDF
11:25 – 11:45: Channel shift – using data analysis to improve service delivery at the City of Edinburgh Council. Michal Wasilewski, Informatics. Download PDF

Session 2 – Informatics Forum
12:00 – 12:20: What are the challenges of collecting and analysing data in primary care? Lessons learned from a feasibility study in six general practices in Lothian, Scotland. Natalia Calanzani, Debbie Cavers, Gaby Vojt, David Weller, Christine Campbell, Population Health Sciences and Informatics. Download PDF
12:20 – 12:40: Facilitating the reuse of brain imaging and clinical data from completed studies across the life course: the Brain Images of Normal Subjects (BRAINS) Imagebank. Samuel Danso, Dominic E. Job, David Alexander Dickie, David Rodriguez, Andrew Robson, Cyril Pernet, Susan D. Shenkin, Joanna M. Wardlaw, Brain Sciences. Download PDF
12:40 – 13:00: Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics and R: Adding value to a public data resource with the ‘tidy data’ paradigm. Jon Minton, AQMeN. Download PDF

Session 3 – Appleton Tower
12:00 – 12:20: Data ecosystems and wicked problems; supporting “students as researchers” in complex data environments. Arno Verhoeven, ECA; James Stewart, SPS; Ewan Klein, Informatics. Download PDF
12:20 – 12:40: Networked learning analytics: Studying the association between learner generated discourse and learning. Srećko Joksimović, Dragan Gašević, Education. Download PDF
12:40 – 13:00: Automated Content Analysis of Discussion Transcripts. Vitomir Kovanovic, Dragan Gašević, Informatics and Education. Download PDF

Session 4 – Informatics Forum
13:45 – 14:05: Exploring Digital Divides in China, Ashley Lloyd, Business School; Mario A. Antonioletti, Terence M. Sloan, EPCC.
14:05 – 14:25: Gone Fishing: The Creation of the Comparative Agendas Project Master Codebook, Shaun Bevan, SSPS. Download PDF
14:25 – 14:45: Electronic lab notebooks and research data management at Edinburgh Experience to date and challenges and opportunities going forward. Rory Macneil, RSpace. Download PDF

Session 5 – Appleton Tower
13:45 – 14:05: Tweeting Jonson’s “Foot Voyage”: deeply mapped data, Anna Groundwater, HCA. Download PDF
14:05 – 14:25: University of Edinburgh Reid Concerts Database Project, Fiona Donaldson, Music. Download PDF
14:25 – 14:45: Encountering feminism on Twitter, Prof Viviene Cree, and Dr Steve Kirkwood, Social and Political Science, with Dr Daniel Winterstein, Sodash. Download PDF

Session 6 – Informatics Forum
15:00 – 15:20: The VELaSSCo framework: a software platform for end user analytics and visualization of large simulation datasets, G. Filippone, A. Janda, K.J. Hanley, S. Papanicolopulos and J.Y. Ooi, IIE, Engineering.
15:20 – 15:40: From raw data to new fundamental particles: The data management lifecycle at the Large Hadron Collider, Andrew Washbrook, Physics. Download PDF
15:40 – 16:00: Tipping the balance – introducing data management on a centre-wide level, Tomasz Zieliński, Eilidh Troup, Andrew Millar, Biology. Download PDF

16:00 Closing talk: Kevin Ashley, Director, Digital Curation Centre
Kerry Miller
RDM Service Coordinator

Highlights from the RDM Programme Progress Report: June – July 2015

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May 2015 saw the end of the current Roadmap period and we are now into a period of consolidating work that has already been done and organising future work for the next phase of the RDM programme. The draft Roadmap 2.0 has been submitted to the steering group for approval and should be published soon.

The RDM services brochure is now almost complete and should be printed and distributed to Schools soon.

A meeting was held between the RDM team and the DCC to decide on the best approach for offering school level customisation of DMPonline. It was decided that customisation would be offered to all schools and undertaken as and when requests were made.

The Infrastructure upgrades have been procured and physically installed for the IGMM storage capacity expansion and the Research Computing Infrastructure DataStore integration servers.

Upgrades for backup/DR infrastructure have been procured and physically installed.

A 2 part workshop sponsored by EU FOSTER programme, “Good practice in data management & data sharing with social research” and “Overcoming obstacles to sharing data about human subjects” was delivered at the Scottish Graduate School of Political and Social Science Summer School.

A new series of awareness raising presentations and training courses for researchers, committees, and support staff in CHSS, CSE, and CMVM are currently being organised for 2015/16.

The RDM website has been successfully migrated to the new content management system, this included reviewing and revising all content, links, and images to fit with the new structure and layout. All schools in CHSS and CSE now have links on their own webpages to the RDM webpages, and CHSS will be placing a link from their new college pages when they go live.

An EAHIL workshop on ‘Managing research data’ was held on the 10th June and the report of the

Met with RDM staff from University of Lisbon who were visiting the University (via James Toon).

Met with Jennifer Warburton, University of Melbourne, as part of Library visit.

Met with French delegation (INIST-CNRS) as part of Library visit.

Kerry Miller
RDM Service Coordinator