New staff member: Stuart Macdonald TAGS: New Staff | Research Data Library & University Collections has great pleasure in welcoming a new member of staff to its ranks.  We welcome Stuart Macdonald to the position of Research Data Management Service Coordinator, …Continue reading →

Dealing with Data – Call For Papers TAGS: Information Services | Research Data Dealing with Data Conference 2014 Call for Papers Date: Tuesday 26th August 2014, 9am – 1pm Including a formal launch of University RDM service by the Principal at 11:30am Location: …Continue reading →

IDCC 2014 – take home thoughts TAGS: Conferences | IDCC14 | research | Research Data A few weeks ago I attended the 9th International Digital Curation Conference in San Francisco.  The conference was spread over four days, with two days for workshops, and two for …Continue reading →

How do you access resources? SCONUL (Society of College, National and University Libraries) and Jisc are currently undertaking a usability study into the way that students and research staff in UK Higher Education access online academic resources …Continue reading →

What would you work for? TAGS: Library One of the benefits of a blog as a publishing platform, is that we can use it for a whole range of tasks, from publishing news about new acquisitions or …Continue reading →

My First MOOC! TAGS: Library | MOOCs The University of Edinburgh has been an early adopter of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and offers courses through both the Coursera and FutureLearn platforms.   Library services need to constantly …Continue reading →

Thinking about a Data Vault TAGS: Library | Research Data In a recent blog post, we looked at the four quadrants of research data curation systems.  This categorised systems that manage or describe research data assets by whether their primary …Continue reading →

Thinking about Research Data Asset Registers TAGS: Library | Research Data In my last blog post, I looked at the four quadrants of research data curation systems.  This categorised systems that manage or describe research data assets by whether their primary …Continue reading →

New staff member: Kerry Miller TAGS: Library | New Staff | Research Data Library & University Collections has great pleasure in welcoming a new member of staff to its ranks.  Kerry Miller has joined us in the role of Research Data Management Service …Continue reading →

The four quadrants of Research Data Curation Systems TAGS: Library | Research Data The University of Edinburgh, like many other universities, is currently undertaking extensive work to build infrastructure that supports and enables good practice in the area of Research Data Management.  This …Continue reading →