After 13 years in HATII, DCC Glasgow is moving on to new digs in the University library. 

We’ll be part of Martina McChrystal’s team alongside Valerie McCutcheon’s Research Management group, the College Librarians and Acquisitions & Access. We’re really excited to be working more closely with the RDM and digital preservation teams, and look forward to exploring new collaborations across subject areas via the library’s central role.

Front page image: University Library CC-BY-SA by Open Glasgow

We are excited to announce that the 13th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC18) will be held from Monday 19 February to Thursday 22 February 2018 at Hesperia Tower in Barcelona, Spain.

The main conference will take place Tuesday 20 February to Wednesday 21 February, with workshops and other related events on Monday 19 and Thursday 22 February. The Call for papers will be published shortly so please consider how you might want to participate in this key event.

There will be opportunities for the presentation of research, practice and data papers, posters, demonstrations, BoFs and workshops.  

The Call for Papers for the 13th International Digital Curation Conference has now been released along with details of the submission process, criteria and submission deadlines.

The last two weeks have seen the first CODATA/RDA Research Data Science school in South America. This post explains more about the initiative, what we hope to achieve and how you can get involved.

Image credits:

Data scientist group photo and Student helpers CC-BY by Rob Quick

Data reuse lab photos CC-BY by Sarah Jones

We've got a new job opening at the DCC following the departure of Jonathan Rans, our training and skills lead, in November. We're looking for someone to join us in Edinburgh as a Research Data Specialist who will take the lead in our programme of skills development. The job, however, is about much more than training.

Depending on your skills and interests you'll spend time on other areas of DCC activity as well. In recent months, these have included consultancy for universities in the UK and Malaysia, for funders such as the ERC and Wellcome Trust and for UK national research facilities. We're also partners in European initiatives such as EOSCPilot, RDA Europe 4 and Openaire and run services such as DMPonline for customers around the world. There's also our annual conference, IDCC, Uk events such as the Research Data Management Forum and much more. We offer flexible working practices and a supportive working environment with a diverse and friendly team in Edinburgh and Glasgow. We encourage applications from all communities.

Applications close at 1700 GMT on Monday January 15th. We expect interviews to be in the week commencing February 5th. To apply, you'll need to use the University of Edinburgh's online recruitment system. If you already have experience in digital curation or research data management and experience of creating or delivering training, this is an ideal opportunity to broaden your knowledge and experience. We look forward to hearing from you.