Introduction to an ICT based cross curricular resource for Secondary Geography PGDE students, given by Anne Robertson and Carol Blackwood at the University of Strathclyde on 27 October 2015.
Stuart Macdonald gave a presentation on research data management at the University of Edinburgh. He discussed the work of EDINA and the Data Library in providing data services and developing tools like Edinburgh DataShare. The university implemented a research data management policy and projects like Data Audit Framework and MANTRA to help researchers with data management best practices and culture change. The goal is to help researchers comply with funder requirements and enable secondary use of research data.
The Go-Geo! Spatial Data Portal provides a discovery and research tool for UK academics to find geospatial resources. It includes over 2,820 searchable geospatial datasets and metadata records. Go-Geo! also provides geospatial metadata best practices and guidelines, metadata editing and publishing tools, workshops and training to support the use and sharing of spatial data across UK academia.
The document proposes the AGILE Data Access Initiative to address issues researchers face in accessing core geospatial data from National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies across Europe. Surveys of NMCAs and academic users found that while most NMCAs make data available, barriers include cost, licensing restrictions, and difficulties obtaining cross-border data. The initiative seeks to negotiate national agreements for academic access and develop reciprocal licenses and access controls to enable easier transnational research.
presentaiton as part of Introductory Analysis of Policy course, Academy of Government's MSc public policy program, University of Edinburgh
Presented by Peter Burnhill, Director of EDINA, at PARSE.insight workshop on Preservation, Access and Re-use of Scientific Data, Darmstadt, Germany, 22 September 2009.
Guest lecture on the University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Science’s Introduction to Political Data Analysis course, 12 January 2016
An overview of using the Jisc multimedia service at EDINA. Presented at two e-Resources breakout sessions being held at the West College Scotland Information Technology Symposium, at Erskine Bridge Hotel, on Wednesday 12th August 2015.
The document discusses the EU INSPIRE Directive and its implications for UK academia. The INSPIRE Directive aims to create a European Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) to improve sharing of spatial information between public authorities and accessibility for the public. This will allow better environmental policies and outcomes. While initially for environmental policy, INSPIRE intends to extend to other domains. The directive may apply to UK universities as they are considered public authorities. This could mean universities would need to make certain spatial datasets available according to INSPIRE specifications. The directive presents both obligations and opportunities for UK academia as data providers and data users.
This document summarizes the open education landscape in Scotland. It outlines several open initiatives happening across different education sectors, including higher education, further education, schools, and the third sector. These initiatives involve open educational resources, MOOCs, open badges, Wikimedia projects, and open knowledge groups. The document also discusses the Open Scotland initiative, which aims to promote open education practices across Scotland. It describes the Scottish Open Education Declaration, a statement of principles to guide open education policy and strategy. While the Declaration received positive responses, fully implementing and supporting it remains a challenge that will require commitment from the Scottish government and other stakeholders.
COBWEB presentation given at the Citizens' Observatories: Empowering European Society Open Conference, which took place on 4th December 2014, Brussels, Belgium.
The document summarizes a meeting at the University of Edinburgh about library roles in research data management. It includes: - Welcome and introduction from Robin Rice about data library services and projects related to research data management. - A talk from Sam Searle of Monash University about library roles in research data management based on experiences at Monash. - A discussion session. - A presentation by Sheila Cannell about getting a research data management policy for the University of Edinburgh. - A presentation by Jeff Haywood about the University of Edinburgh's storage strategy.
Presenter: Stuart Macdonald Presentation first given at Open Knowledge Scotland event at Inspace in Edinburgh, 13 May 2010. EDINA project to create an online crowdsourcing tool which will combine data from digitised Scottish Post Office Directories (PODs) with contemporaneous historical maps