We reached a huge landmark for the St Andrews Research Repository – we now have over 20,000 items! This is a community effort, bringing together academics and support staff in a common goal to promote and extend our…
What have the RDM team been up to over the past 12 months? A lot has happened over past year but the most important thing to mention is that we moved. Since May 2019 we are no longer part of the Library, we joined…
Happy Love Data Week! This is the third year that we celebrate Love Data Week and this year, in addition to blog posts, we have organised two talks about research data (see our previous post for details,…
Love Data Week 2020 is almost here! Like the past two years we will join other institutions in celebrating Love Data Week. Normally we invite researchers to contribute with blog posts. However, this year we went a bit…
Every year Digital Science, in association with Figshare and Springer Nature, conduct this survey to discover global attitudes towards open data. If you are a researcher we want to hear from you, no matter the…
It has been a while, since we stepped back and had a look at what we have collected in our research data repository in St Andrews. So, what has happened since February 2018? We have now recorded a total of 1642 dataset…
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…
We will use this post marking Love Data Week 2019 as an opportunity to reflect on how research data management at the University has progressed over the past year (see Our Research Data Management journey from 2018’s…
Today, we mark Love Data week 2019 on the theme of data ethics, with a thought-provoking contribution by Dr Eric Stoddart, associate director of the School of Divinity’s Centre for the Study of Religion & Politics…
One of the themes of this year’s Love Data Week 2019 is ‘open data’. Coincidentally, last week saw the publication of ‘Realising the potential: Final report of the Open Research Data Task Force’, providing expert…