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Edinburgh University Data Library Services

Edinburgh University Data Library Services. Stuart Macdonald ( stuart.macdonald@ed.ac.uk ) EDINA National Data Centre - http://edina.ac.uk/ Edinburgh University Data Library - http://datalib.ed.ac.uk/.

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Edinburgh University Data Library Services

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  1. Edinburgh University Data Library Services Stuart Macdonald (stuart.macdonald@ed.ac.uk) EDINA National Data Centre - http://edina.ac.uk/ Edinburgh University Data Library - http://datalib.ed.ac.uk/ 1st semester ‘Eccentrics’ Meeting, New College Senate room

  2. EDINA and University Data Library (EUDL) together are a division within Information Services of the University of Edinburgh. EDINA is a JISC-funded National Data Centre providing national online resources for education and research. The Data Library assists Edinburgh University users in the discovery, access, use and management of research datasets. EDINA & University Data Library (EUDL) 1st semester ‘Eccentrics’ Meeting, New College Senate room

  3. Mission statement: “..to enhance the productivity of research, learning and teaching in UK higher and further education..” Networked access to a range of online resources for UK FE and HE Services free at the point of use for use by staff and students in learning, teaching and research through institutional subscription Focus is on service but also undertake R&D (projects  services) delivers about 20 online services has about 10 major projects (including services in development) employs about 75 staff (Edinburgh & St Helens) EDINA National Data Centre 1st semester ‘Eccentrics’ Meeting, New College Senate room

  4. Edinburgh University Data Library • - first such service in the UK, started in 1983 • Primarily within social sciences • Data collection covering: • Large scale government surveys • Macro-economic time series • Financial time series • Population census data • Geospatial data • Specialised in data for Scotland and GIS • Teaching and (JISC-funded) projects • Institutional representative for national data services 1st semester ‘Eccentrics’ Meeting, New College Senate room

  5. Data Library Services Finding… Match research topic to data resources such as surveys, censuses, databases and provide information on other libraries, archives, government agencies (ONS, GROS) Accessing … Assist with registration and acquisition of data from national data services such as ESDS, UKDA, MIMAS. Demonstrate custom interfaces to download data or provide files online / on disk. 1st semester ‘Eccentrics’ Meeting, New College Senate room

  6. Using … Interpret codebooks and online documentation, help choose variables to use in analysis, or customise users’ data in e.g. Excel, SPSS . Assist with importing of spatial data into GIS for thematic mapping. Merge and match users data with recognised sources such as NSPD, deprivation scores. Managing … Advise on storing, versioning, documenting, formatting and anonymising researchers’ data so that it can be shared or preserved for future use in an archive or repository (e.g. UKDA or institutional data repository such as Edinburgh Datashare - http://datashare.edina.ac.uk/dspace/ ) 1st semester ‘Eccentrics’ Meeting, New College Senate room

  7. Research Data Management Training Developing online and F-2F courses in conjunction with the Postgraduate Transferable Skills Unit - http://www.transkills.ed.ac.uk/ and PG Essentials - http://www.transkills.ed.ac.uk/pgessentials.htm Research data management guidance & Data sharing and preservation – http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/data-management 1st semester ‘Eccentrics’ Meeting, New College Senate room

  8. Projects • Participate in Data Library internal projects as well as undertaking extensive costed consultancy to researchers e.g. • Conversion of Scottish Household Survey documentation and data into DDI compliant XML. • Collation of data sources to develop educational indicators for a Nuffield Review of 14-19 education for a researcher from the Centre for Educational Sociology. • Creation of Choropleth student distribution maps using GIS for Accommodaiton Services • Responsible for website development for the Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN) 1st semester ‘Eccentrics’ Meeting, New College Senate room

  9. END Washed out images: Daniel Kohn’s Photostream from Flickr 1st semester ‘Eccentrics’ Meeting, New College Senate room

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