The Software Sustainability Institute‘s Research Software Engineers campaign is running the first RSE Conference on 15-16 September 2016 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. The organisers are looking…
Thank-you to everyone who viewed and shared our post calling for information on the development of software for research at St Andrews, and particularly to those who submitted details. There is now a mailing list for…
Do you write software for research? If so, get in touch, but also take a look at the Software Sustainability Institute’s Open Call for Projects – the deadline for the current call is 29th April. Through the Open Call…
The British Library Labs Roadshow came to Edinburgh on Friday 26 February 2016, showing off some of the work that researchers have conducted using the British Library’s Digital Collections. Nicola Osborne of EDINA kept…
This week we have rolled out an update to the St Andrews Digital Collections site, making it easier to discover, navigate to and explore the content of the varied range of items available. The project to build the…
Update 08/03/16: there is now a St Andrews Research Computing Network mailing list The Research Computing Team in the Library exists to support researchers across the University with the IT components of their…
The team behind the Online Research Database Service (ORDS) at the University of Oxford are running a short survey on behalf of Jisc, looking at how researchers choose and use databases to manage research data: If you…
The Software Sustainability Institute are running a Collaborations Workshop at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh on 22nd and 23rd March 2016. The event may be of interest to a wide range of people, including:…
The EPSRC-funded equipment.data site is RCUK‘s preferred medium for the national sharing of data regarding research equipment – and now it includes information about equipment at the University of St Andrews. In…
In May 2015 the Research Computing Team joined the Library from IT Services as part of the new Digital Research Division. There are three developers in the team: Swithun Crowe, Patrick McCann and Mary Woodcock Kroble.…