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Patrick McCann

#lovedataweek: Data Needs Software

As part of Love Data Week 2019, we thought it would be worth taking a brief moment to think about software. Software is not data, but software is essential for working with data – whether that’s creating it, collecting…

Research Data Management Survey Results: Software

As previously reported, over the summer we conducted a survey on research data management practices at the University and we’ve been analysing the responses. Included in the survey were a few questions about software…

Survey on database use by researchers

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…