Describing and Packaging data
The concept of the Data Vault service is to take research data that is no longer being actively used, and to archive it in long-term archival storage. In order to facilitate this two processes need to...
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The Data Vault service is a system that joins up two sets of storage: fast, expensive, high quality active research storage, and slow, cheap, archival-quality long term storage. The Data Vault service...
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Month 2 project meeting
The Data Vault project is three months long, and is a collaboration between the universities of Edinburgh and Manchester. Due to the short nature of the project, we have decided to hold monthly...
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LibraryLabs Pop Up at Central
Following on from the success of our Pop Up Library Metadata Games sessions during Innovative Learning Week, this week we took Metadata Games to the City of Edinburgh Council’s Central Library, the...
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Important Please Read – Rollover 5-8th June
Between Friday 5th and Monday 8th June we will roll over published lists from 2014/15 to 2015/16. Important – Only published 2014/15 lists will be rolled over. – Lists which are not associated with the...
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**Important** Resource Lists Rollover Has Commenced
Rollover of published lists from 2014/15 to 2015/16 has commenced and will run until Monday 8th June. During the rollover period you should not edit or publish ANY lists. – Only published 2014/15...
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Resource Lists Rollover Complete
Rollover of published lists from 2014/15 to 2015/16 has now completed. When you sign in to Resource Lists @ Edinburgh and go in to ‘My Lists’, a 2015/16 version of your old list(s) should now be...
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Update: How to Find your 2015/16 Resource List(s)
A copy of your 2014/15 list has been created for the 2015/16 academic year. To find and add the 2015/16 draft copy of your list please follow the below steps. Sign in to Resource Lists @ Edinburgh and...
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Additional Workshops – Resource Lists @ Edinburgh (using Talis Aspire)
Due to demand we’ve scheduled a further two introductory Resource Lists (using Talis Aspire) workshops for academic staff. The events are bookable via MyEd: Wed 8th July 10-12pm, Main Library, Room...
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Resource List Survey Feedback
Library Learning services ran a survey from March 30th – April 24th asking registered Talis Aspire users for feedback on our Resource Lists @ Edinburgh service. We had some great responses and would...
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Send us your Reading / Resource Lists
The College of Humanities and Social Science is funding two student interns to work on uploading resource lists to Talis Aspire over the summer, so we are keen to have as many reading lists as possible...
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ArchivesSpace at the University of Edinburgh – the techie side
Introducing ArchivesSpace for researchers and public users, as well as the administrative side for our Archives Team within the Centre for Research Collections, has been an ongoing project for the last...
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The Data Vault service is a system that joins up two sets of storage: fast, expensive, high quality active research storage, and slow, cheap, archival-quality long term storage. The Data Vault service...
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Resource List Workshops
Interested in using Resource Lists @ Edinburgh for your course but a little unsure how to go about it. Or would you like to learn how to create lists yourself? Come along to one of our demonstrations...
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Finding, managing, writing and sharing research – what tools do you use?
Do you use Google Drive or Word? Mendeley or Endnote? Google Scholar or Scopus? Open access or traditional journals? ResearchGate or repositories? New tools are constantly being developed, as...
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Submit your Resource List by 5pm TODAY and we will create it for you
Remember, if you submit your reading list to our Library Learning Services team by 5pm today we will guarantee creation of your resource list ready for Semester 1. This service also includes processing...
View ArticleLearn how to use Resource Lists in your own time
During our workshops we run through a series of tasks to familiarise attendees with creating, editing, and managing resource lists. If you are unable to attend one of our sessions, or just prefer to...
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Create your own Resource List
Resource Lists @ Edinburgh uses Talis Aspire to create and manage online reading lists. Create your resource list using Talis Aspire, include the additional information requested by the Library and...
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Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School – days 1 and 2
I’m down in Oxford this week for the Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS), a five-day festival of digital scholarship showcasing the latest developments in research in the field and...
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Publishing your Semester 1 Resource List
Semester 1 resource lists should be published before 7th August 2015 deadline to allow sufficient time for the Library to review the list and process any requests for scans and/or book orders. More...
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