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…
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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…
#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,…
Webinar: “FAIR data in practice: From FAIRy tale to FAIR enough”
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) are organising a webinar on 11 December at 3pm CET (2pm GMT) on the subject of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data, FAIRness and FAIR compliance. The…
Calling researchers in the transport field
The European Commission has established an Expert Group to investigate the main needs, obstacles and opportunities for open data sharing in the area of transport research. The Group will make recommendations about the…
Data Tree data management training for early career researchers
Data Tree online course Data Tree is a new free online data management training course, funded by NERC, which is due to launch in June 2018. This self-paced course consists of eight structured modules including video,…
Data skills training: Collecting and Storing Data from Internet-based Sources
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…