Happy Love Data Week!
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,…
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Join us in celebrating Love Data Week 2020
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…
The State of Open Data 2019
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…
Data about St Andrews Open data
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…
#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…
#lovedataweek: The research data team’s everyday life with data
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…
A view on data ethics and surveillance for #lovedataweek
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…
#lovedataweek: Announcing a report from the Open Research Data Task Force
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…
Happy #lovedataweek!
This week marks Love Data Week 2019 , an annual social media event coordinated by research data specialists, mostly working in academic and research libraries or data archives or centers. Similar to Open Access Week,…
The University’s new research data management policy
As of December 2018, the University has had an updated research data management policy, which affects all those conducting research at the University. The new policy’s more explicit wording and scope makes it clearer…