RDM Programme @ Edinburgh - Service Interoperation

The document provides an overview of the EDINA & Data Library service at the University of Edinburgh. It discusses that EDINA is a JISC-funded National Data Centre that provides online resources for education and research, while the Data Library assists university users in discovering, accessing, using and managing research datasets. The Data Library offers consultancy services and has developed projects like Edinburgh DataShare, an institutional repository of research datasets, and the Research Data MANTRA online course on research data management.

Invited presentation to SDLC Repository Development Group: Research Data meeting. 2 May, 2013: St. Andrews, Scotland.

Presented by Adam Rusbridge at UK LOCKSS Alliance Members’ Meeting: 10th May 2011, National Railway Museum, York

The University of Edinburgh has taken several steps to improve research data management: 1. They developed the first research data management policy in the UK to provide guidelines for storing, sharing, and preserving research data. 2. They created online training and guidance materials called MANTRA to teach researchers best practices for data organization, documentation, and long-term access. 3. They are developing research data services including a data library, repository, and storage strategies to support researchers in managing their data throughout the research lifecycle and ensuring access over time.

Robin Rice presented on guiding users through data deposit from the perspective of a data librarian. The presentation covered supporting data users throughout the research lifecycle, fostering a culture of responsible sharing through training, and incentivizing open data sharing through easy-to-use repository services. It also discussed balancing the needs of a multi-disciplinary institutional repository to accommodate different domains while striving for FAIR data principles and lowering barriers to deposit. An online demo of user documentation for the Edinburgh DataShare repository was provided.

1) The University of Edinburgh requires research data that has future historical interest or represents records of the university to be deposited in an appropriate repository. 2) Edinburgh DataShare is one of the key research data management services offered by the university and has worked to meet the requirements of pilot submissions from various research communities and data types. 3) Discussions at the Repository Fringe event covered topics such as depositing student thesis data, handling sensitive health data, supporting non-standard metadata and licenses, and ensuring long-term access to large datasets.

The University of Edinburgh implemented a research data management policy and programme to provide services and support for researchers. Key services include DataStore for active data storage, DataShare for publishing data, and DataVault for long-term preservation. Training, guidance on data management planning, and support staff help researchers comply with funder requirements and best practices. The multi-phase programme establishes critical services while pursuing interoperability and engaging the research community.

Presented by Robin Rice at the "IRs dealing with data" workshop at the Open Repositories 2013 Conference in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, on 8 July 2013.

Presented at the RCPE Workshop Course 'Research - an introduction for trainee physicians', Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 28 October 2015

The document summarizes discussions from a meeting about ensuring long-term access to scholarly works in electronic formats. It describes the governance and activities of the UK LOCKSS Alliance, including comparison of different e-journal archiving initiatives, the PECAN project to build an entitlement registry, and recommendations from a white paper on e-journal archiving. It also discusses the newly formed JARVIG committee tasked with determining the most effective national e-journal archiving infrastructure for UK higher education.

Presentation given by Robin Rice and Jeff Haywood at the International Digital Data Centre, Chicago, 6 December 2010

Presented by Peter Burnhill at the ost ALA Annual Holdings Update Forum, Universal and repurposed holdings information -- Emerging initiatives and projects, Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 25 June 2011

The document discusses the UK LOCKSS Alliance program which aims to help libraries preserve electronic journals and books through local archiving. It describes how the collaborative organization coordinates support for members to build and maintain their own archives of web published content. The UK LOCKSS Alliance works to ensure long-term sustainable access to scholarly works.

The document discusses access control for geospatial data using Shibboleth federated identity management. It summarizes work done in the ESDIN project to set up a prototype Shibboleth federation between national mapping agencies. It also describes an OGC interoperability experiment where several software vendors modified their OWS clients to work with Shibboleth single sign-on. The document concludes by discussing potential next steps, such as establishing an INSPIRE Shibboleth federation and holding a workshop at the INSPIRE conference.

Robin Rice and Stuart Macdonald review the upgrade to DSpace 4.1 for the DataShare repository at the University of Edinburgh.

The Data Library at the University of Edinburgh was established in the early 1980s to provide access to datasets like UK census data. It has since evolved to support research data management across its lifecycle through services like consultancy, a dataset catalogue, and training. The Data Library is now part of a research data management program that includes an institutional data repository called Edinburgh DataShare that has deposited around 250 datasets so far. A key part of training is the open online Research Data Management course called MANTRA.

Presentation given by Peter Burnhill of EDINA, at the Digital Preservation Coalition's "Trust and E-journals" event on 31 January 2012 at the Wellcome Collection Conference Centre, Euston Road, London, UK.

Presented by Stuart Macdonald at Literatures, Languages and Cultures Research Committee Meeting, Univ. Edinburgh, 28 October 2015

Presented by C.I. Higgins, M. Koutroumpas, A. Seales and A. Matheus at the INSPIRE Conference 2011, 27 June 2011.

This was a guest lecture presented online at 12.30pm, Monday 14th October 2013, as part of Session 2: Co-creation in the University of Edinburgh Institute for Academic Development's Online Tutoring course (Autumn 2013).

1) The document outlines the PECAN Phase 2 project which developed a prototype entitlement registry to match up title information with institutional subscriptions and post-cancellation entitlement. 2) Key components of the prototype included designing an entitlement registry demonstrator to ingest and display data, assessing methods for automating data ingestion and maintaining record accuracy over time. 3) Challenges identified included the dynamic nature of deals and titles, defining packages, and developing standard data formats and workflows for publisher data supply to minimize manual intervention.

Presentation given by Stuart Macdonald, Robin Rice and E. Serafin at the IT Futures Conference 2009, 15 December 2009.

Slides accompanying the University of Edinburgh Digital Day of Ideas 2016 (#DigScholEd) workshop on Tweeting and Blogging for Academics run by Nicola Osborne (EDINA) and Lorna Campbell (EDINA/LTW). The workshop took place on 18th May 2016. Read more about the event here: http://www.digital.hss.ed.ac.uk/ddi/ddi-2016/

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.

The document discusses the importance of promoting online resources to library users. It notes that without active promotion, usage of subscription resources will be lower. It also suggests that libraries should alert users to useful free resources to create engaging sites and establish connections with users. The document then examines some challenges to promoting resources, such as information overload and competition from other online sources. It provides suggestions on how to effectively promote resources, including using metrics to monitor impact, ensuring accurate resource descriptions, and employing search engine optimization strategies.

1) The document discusses services provided by RepNet to help address challenges faced by institutional repositories (IRs) around deposit, discovery, reporting, and dissemination of research outputs. 2) Key services include automated deposit tools, aggregation of IR metadata to improve discovery, and services to enhance metadata and reporting on research outputs and impact. 3) RepNet aims to help IRs meet funder and institutional requirements by integrating with other research information systems through standards like CERIF.

Presentation delivered by Stuart Macdonald at a DCC/JISC Managing Research Data workshop in Nottingham, 25 October 2012

Presented by Adam Rusbridge at e-Journals are forever? Preservation and Continuing Access to e-journal Content. A DPC, EDINA and JISC joint initiative, British Library, London, 26 April 2010.

CLOCKSS is a community-based digital preservation system that aims to solve the problem of loss of digital content that is no longer available in print. It works by storing copies of content across global partner libraries. Content is governed by an international board of libraries and publishers. CLOCKSS uses a sustainable financial model of low fees and raising an endowment to keep participation affordable and ensure long-term preservation of orphaned digital content.

The WSTIERIA Project aims to enable federated authentication for web services without requiring browser-based protocols. The initial "facade" approach uses an Apache proxy that redirects authenticated browser sessions to rewrite URLs in web service responses. However, this approach has limitations when applied to arbitrary protocols due to dependencies on URLs. The project is now exploring using Shibboleth's delegated authentication extension, which allows a portal application to transparently authenticate a user to a backend web service without further login.