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. |
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Session 1 – Making Open Data Work Chair: Pauline Ward, Data Library Assistant, Research Data Support |
Innovating with Open Knowledge, Lorna M Campbell |
Case Studies and a quiet, but very real revolution in Observational Astrophysics, Nicholas P. Ross |
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DIY Academic Archiving: The Ethics, Politics and Practice of Making Open Qualitative Data with Omeka, Niamh Moore, Nikki Dunne, Mary Hanlon, and Martina Karels |
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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 |
The Challenges of Data Access for Historical Clinical Trials: A user experience, Tammy Piper |
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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 |
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Announcement: winners of the first DataShare Awards |
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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 |
From blank page to electronic labbook: turning the University wiki into an Electronic Lab Notebook, Eilidh Troup, Tomasz Zielinski, and Andrew Millar |
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Feeding the world one open access plant phenotype image at a time, Sotirios Tsaftaris |
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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 |
Using DataTags to classify personal data under GDPR, Rob Baxter |
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Facilitating access to administrative records with synthetic data, Gillian Raab, Beata Nowok, Dawn Everington and Chris Dibben |
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Closing Keynote Chair: Kerry Miller |
Open Data and the importance of Confidentiality, Control and Public Benefits, Dr Mhairi Aitken |

Dealing with Data 2017 one day conference
Playfair Library Hall, Old College