Information Services: Recent submissions
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REFereeing decisions on REF2021 submissions
(2018-07-02)Presentation at RepoFringe 2018 - REFereeing decisions on REF2021 submissions by Pauline Jones, Head of Strategic Performance and Research Policy, The University of Edinburgh -
That was then, this is now. What’s next?
(2018-07-02)Presentation at RepoFringe 2018 - That was then, this is now. What’s next? by Dr Danny Kingsley, Deputy Director, Scholarly Communication & Research Services, Cambridge University Library -
Layers of security for repositories: onion services, privacy, and intellectual freedom in the scholarly commons
(2018-07-02)The growth and development of many of our repository services has seen them blossom in recent years. With deposits and usage increasing, the successes of open research and scholarship can certainly be seen to be bearing ... -
Sustaining the momentum, moving the DataVault project to a service
(2018-07-03)Presentation at RepoFringe 2018 - Sustaining the momentum, moving the DataVault project to a service by Claire Knowles, University of Edinburgh -
Making repositories work through collaboration (in all its guises)
(2018-07-03)Presentation at RepoFringe 2018 - Making repositories work through collaboration (in all its guises) by Chris Awre, Head of Information Services, University of Hull -
RCUK Open Access Report 2018
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018)This report reviews the progress the University of Edinburgh has made in its implementation of RCUK’s Open Access Policy during the period April 2017 - March 2018. -
FAIR Software? How can we make it easier to find, access, deposit and reuse software?
(2017)With FAIR data all the vogue, what about the software that’s required to analyse and visualise it? How can we make software easier to find, access, and reuse? In particular, can we use certification or assessment techniques ... -
A critical look at methods for protection of privacy in the 2015 Charter for Safe Havens in Scotland for handling unconsented data from NHS patient records to support research
(2017-11-22)To allow e-health records to be exploited for research without individual-level consent, The 2015 Charter for Safe Havens in Scotland recommended that datasets should be made available only through “safe haven” data ... -
Using DataTags to classify personal data under GDPR
(2017-11-22)The EU-wide General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on personal data comes into force in May 2018 and, pacé Brexit, is already being used as the basis of an overhaul of the UK’s Data Protection Act. GDPR introduces ... -
Are anonymised databases truly anonymous? An introduction
(2017-11-22)Recently, there has been an increased number of requests from funders, regulators and publishers, for clinical researchers to share their research data with others, within the existing legal framework, once the primary ... -
Case Studies and a quiet, but very real revolution in Observational Astrophysics
(2017-11-22)In my field, astrophysics, and in my subfield of observational extragalactic astronomy, we are blessed by the fact that our research data sources are generally static (i.e. version controlled), well documented databases ... -
Feeding the world one open access plant phenotype image at a time
(2017-11-22)Plant phenotyping is the identification of effects on plant structure and function (the phenotype) resulting from genotypic differences (i.e., differences in the genetic code) and the environmental conditions a plant has ... -
From blank page to electronic labbook: turning the University wiki into an Electronic Lab Notebook
(2017-11-22)Funders and governments are increasingly requiring researchers to make their data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) in order to improve quality of research and promote open science. The main driving ... -
The Challenges of Data Access for Historical Clinical Trials: A user experience
(2017-11-22)Many trials from yesteryear looked at the benefit of treatment A v treatment B in terms of recurrence and survival data only. With the advent of new research methods available such as whole genome sequencing, digital image ... -
DIY Academic Archiving: The Ethics, Politics and Practice of Making Open Qualitative Data with Omeka
(2017-11-22)Archiving of qualitative research datasets is not new, but is still far from standard practice. While (in the UK), the UK Data Service (formerly as ESDS Qualidata) have led on archiving qualitative data, it was always clear ... -
Innovating with Open Knowledge
(2017-11-22)Free and open access to the outputs of publicly‐funded research provides important social and economic benefits as well as being in line with the Government’s commitment to transparency and open data, and contributing to ... -
Open Data and the importance of Confidentiality, Control and Public Benefits
(2017-11-22)Data is now a term that has entered everyday vocabulary. Whether being discussed in relation to mobile phone tariffs, internet browsing history or public services, people are becoming ever more aware of their data and the ... -
The changing Data Landscape; “Data at the heart of everything”
(2017-11-22)Introductory address for Dealing with Data 2017. A video of this presentation can be viewed at https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/0_md90bx1x. -
Facilitating access to administrative records with synthetic data
(2017-11-22)The analysis of large administrative data sets can provide researchers with answers to many research and policy questions. Scotland has a wide range of such data available, in many cases with more detail than is available ... -
Balancing the Local and the Universal in Maintaining Ethical Access to a Genomics Biobank
(2017-11-22)Background: In policy and governance discussions of genetic and genomic data sharing, the rights of research subjects are often balanced against the scientific benefits of allowing open access to biomedical data. However, ...
