Future of University of Edinburgh trusted research environments For the past few years, Information Services (ISG) have been providing a University Data Safe Haven (DSH) service, to host analysis of sensitive research data.  Alongside this, Edinburgh Parallel Computing …Continue reading →

End of an era – 2017-2020 RDM Roadmap Review (part 1) TAGS: Data Safe Haven | DataStore | DataSync | RDM services Looking back on three years that went into completing our RDM Roadmap in this period of global pandemic and working from home, feels a bit anti-climactic. Nevertheless, the previous three …Continue reading →

Welcome to Research Data Stewards – a new role This week the team is pleased to welcome two University of Edinburgh PhD students who have joined Research Data Support in a new Research Data Steward role. We were even …Continue reading →

Data Safe Haven new remote access feature The Research Data Service team is pleased to announce the availability of a new remote access feature of the University of Edinburgh Data Safe Haven (DSH). In response to the …Continue reading →

Dealing with Data 2019 (January 2020): Collaboration Across the Nations TAGS: conference | Dealing with Data | videos Picture the scene: A cold January day, the wind blowing the scarves of the passers-by through the large windows of the Informatics Forum meeting room. The group inside listens, takes …Continue reading →

A visit from the data jungle: My internship in research data management This is a guest post from Dr. Tamar Israeli, who completed a work/study internship with the Research Data Support team last Autumn. A link to her report is available below. …Continue reading →

New research data management tool on one-year trial: protocols.io Information Services aims to offer a research data service that meets most of the data lifecycle needs of the majority of UoE researchers without interfering with their freedom to choose …Continue reading →

Research Data Service achieves ISO 27001 accreditation for Data Safe Haven facility Following a five day on-site audit by Lloyd’s Register, the Information Security Management System (ISMS) which forms the basis for the Data Safe Haven facility for University of Edinburgh researchers …Continue reading →

Research Data Workshops: DataVault Summary Having soft-launched the DataVault facility in early 2019, the Research Data Support team -with the support of the project board – held five workshops in different colleges and locations to …Continue reading →

FAIR dues to the Research Data Alliance It has been a while since we’ve blogged about the Research Data Alliance (RDA), and as an organisation it has come into its own since its beginnings in 2013. One …Continue reading →