The Urban Big Data Centre at the University of Glasgow’s next data skills training course will be held on Monday 11th June 2018 and is now taking registrations. Collecting and Storing Data from Internet-based Sources…
Andy Turner, Jisc data champion from the University of Leeds, argues “Data should be as open as possible and as closed as necessary” in a recent piece published in Times Higher Education. The article provides some…
An important component of research data management is a sound data management plan (DMP). It is good practice to have one at the start of any research project, but even more so, many funders now require a DMP…
The Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) held its Spring seminar in Zürich, and I was lucky enough to attend. The seminar was held at ETHzürich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich), the city’s…
The UK Data Service are running a series of webinars to get you up and running with data management and with finding and using UK Data Service data: Introduction to the UK Data Service, 24 April 2018, 15.00 – 16.00 BST…
The introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018 is fast approaching. If your research involves working with people or data about them, then this new framework for legal and ethical…
Alex Voss from the School of Computer Science and Anna Clements and Eva Borger from the University Library have been awarded funding by OCLC for a 1-year project titled “Characterizing the adoption of ORCID ID in…
In our last post to mark Love Data Week 2018 we summarise the work done towards the deposit of data underpinning theses. It is almost a year ago that the Research Data Management (RDM) team began work on a process for…
In our third post to mark Love Data Week 2018 we will talk about what the RDM team have been up to during the past years. The RDM team was formed in May 2015 as a response to the EPSRC policy on research data and with…
Our second post to mark Love Data Week 2018 is a contribution by Anne-Marie Weijmans and Vivienne Wild from the School of Physics and Astronomy. This is their data journey as astronomers: As astronomers we face an…