EDINA newsline
December 2008: Volume 13 Issue 4
The Edinburgh University Data Library is celebrating 25 years of support for staff and students in their discovery, access, use and management of research datasets.
On 5 December 2008, following on from the Digital Curation Centre international conference held in Edinburgh that week, friends and colleagues from near and far gathered in the afternoon at the EDINA offices to celebrate the milestone with short speeches and cutting the cake, along with food, drink and toasts. Earlier in the day, about 45 professionals and academics gathered to consider the significant changes that the Data Library has been part of and might look forward to in the future.
'EDINA and Data Library' is the name of the unit within Information Services at the University of Edinburgh which delivers both the range of well-known national and international online services as well as the local research data services to University members.
Three fellow travellers - Chuck Humphrey (University of Alberta), Sheila Anderson (Kings College London), and Peter Burnhill (EDINA and Data Library) - were asked to reflect on past and future data services, as well as on challenging questions such as:
Following a 'networking lunch', an international panel presented top themes from four countries: Ann Green, USA; Henk Harmsen, the Netherlands; Robin Rice, UK; and Andrew Treloar, Australia.