Dealing with Data 2017 one day conference

Dealing with Data 2017 was a great success attracting a diverse audience of researchers and students from all three colleges.

As the day was video recorded we have uploaded a video of each presentation, together with the slides where possible.

Programme

Introductory address: The changing Data Landscape; “Data at the heart of everything”, Gavin McLachlan, Chief Information Officer and Librarian to the University.

Video: https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/0_md90bx1x

PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26026

Session 1 – Making Open Data Work

Chair: Pauline Ward, Data Library Assistant, Research Data Support

Innovating with Open Knowledge, Lorna M Campbell

Video: https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/0_omfloqmh

PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26028

Case Studies and a quiet, but very real revolution in Observational Astrophysics, Nicholas P. Ross

Video: https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/0_4jewsfn4

PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26033

DIY Academic Archiving: The Ethics, Politics and Practice of Making Open Qualitative Data with Omeka, Niamh Moore, Nikki Dunne, Mary Hanlon, and Martina Karels

Video: https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/0_bpqm3pzm

PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26029

Session 2 – Balancing consent with Openness

Chair: Dominic Tate, Head of Library Research Support

Balancing the Local and the Universal in Maintaining Ethical Access to a Genomics Biobank, Catherine Heeney and Shona Kerr

Video: https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/0_bw9i5gmn

PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26024

The Challenges of Data Access for Historical Clinical Trials: A user experience, Tammy Piper

Video: https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/0_z6dtx4zx

PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26030

A critical look at methods for protection of privacy in the 2015 Charter for Safe Havens in Scotland for handling unconsented data from NHS patient records to support research, Paul McKeigue

Video: https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/0_taraqidu

PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26036

Announcement: winners of the first DataShare Awards

Video: https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/0_b4ytsulo

Session 3 – Is it FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, & Reusable)?

Chair: Tony Weir, Director of IT Infrastructure

FAIR Software? How can we make it easier to find, access, deposit and reuse software? Neil Chue Hong

Video: https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/0_p03epvcf

PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26037

From blank page to electronic labbook: turning the University wiki into an Electronic Lab Notebook, Eilidh Troup, Tomasz Zielinski, and Andrew Millar

Video: https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/0_3gsk6upd

PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26031

Feeding the world one open access plant phenotype image at a time, Sotirios Tsaftaris

Video: https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/0_kl7hvong

PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26032

Session 4 – Protecting privacy in open data

Chair: Robin Rice, Data Librarian & Head of Research Data Support Services

Are anonymised databases truly anonymous? An introduction, Aryelly Rodriguez

Video: https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/0_wmufn830

PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26034

Using DataTags to classify personal data under GDPR, Rob Baxter

Video: https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/0_5f8tlvrp

PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26035

Facilitating access to administrative records with synthetic data, Gillian Raab, Beata Nowok, Dawn Everington and Chris Dibben

Video: https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/0_he8f7thl

PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26025

Closing Keynote

Chair: Kerry Miller

Open Data and the importance of Confidentiality, Control and Public Benefits, Dr Mhairi Aitken

Video: https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/0_7172qesr

PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26027