News archive 2010

The Data Library has recently produced a new guide that highlights a range of resources offering multimedia content that is copyright cleared or labelled with a Creative Commons licence permitting its re-use.

In the developing world, digital technologies have the potential to transform lives.

To coincide with Open Access Week 2010 we are pleased to report that a further open access deposit has recently been made to Edinburgh DataShare, the digital repository of multi-disciplinary research datasets produced at the University of Edinburgh, hosted by the Data Library.

Data Librarian Robin Rice was a panelist at the European Conference on Digital Libraries 2010 conference at the University of Glasgow on 7 September, 2010.

The third annual Repository Fringe conference was held at the National e-Science Centre, University of Edinburgh on the 2nd and 3rd September.

Repository Fringe 2010: Registration now open.

A new edition of the free 'Internet for Social Statistics' online tutorial in the Virtual Training Suite is now available.

The first Open Knowledge Scotland event took place on 13th May at the contemporary InSpace area of the Informatics Forum. It was organised and supported by iDEAlab and EDINA at the University of Edinburgh, and by the Open Knowledge Foundation.

For much of the past year the Data Library has been actively involved with the development of, and ongoing support for, the website of the recently established Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN) in Scotland.

EDINA in partnership with the National Library of Scotland (NLS) has been awarded a JISC Rapid Innovations grant to develop an online, 'crowd sourcing' tool to enable a broad spectrum of users - both in academia and beyond (such as local history groups and genealogists) - to plot a location on a map of any address, street name, advert or listing from digitised historical Scottish Post Office Directories on to a contemporaneous historical map.