The “Dealing with Data” workshop introduce students to Open Science and FAIR principles and equip them with effective strategies and practical tools for responsible data management throughout the research data life cycle — from data collection to sharing. The knowledge and skills acquired help students make their research data as open and reusable as possible, which facilitates data sharing and the long-term preservation of their data at the end of their projects.
26/10/2026 , 9:30-12:30 at Ashworth Honours Room 1, Ashworth Building - for SBS, UoE.
28/10/2026, 9:30-12:30 Online training on Teams for SBS, UoE.
26/11/2026, 10:00-13:00 Online training for EastBio cohort
## Contacts
BioRDM: bio_rdm [@] ed.ac.uk (Dr Livia Scorza, Data team leader)
Digital Research Services: https://digitalresearchservices.ed.ac.uk/contact
PowerPoint slides can be found
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Information about available services including centrally run trainings and learning materials.
Data and computing services available to researchers at the University of Edinburgh, also includes training.
https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/RDMS
Biology-tailored resources related to data managment.
The network file system that MUST BE used for all research data
Collaborative platform, recommended for co-writing documents and presentations - no more bouncing emails
https://dmponline.dcc.ac.uk Tool that helps writing DMPs
Jupyter notebook https://jupyter.org For those who code - supports Python, R and other languages
Benchling https://www.benchling.com/ For those who work with wet lab/ molecular biology
Protocols.io https://www.protocols.io/ Repository for storing and publishing laboratories protocols
Github/ GitLab https://github.com/ https://git.ecdf.ed.ac.uk/
Free to use web-space, for simple home pages, project pages,
organizing files, collaborative documents and even simple ELN
Zenodo https://zenodo.org/
A data agnostic repository - good for any data type including data that accompanies a publication, reports, presentations, posters, etc.
UoE DataShare https://datashare.is.ed.ac.uk/
The University respository for sharing public data
BioRDM suggested data specific repositories https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/RDMS/Suggested+data+repositories
FAIRSharing https://fairsharing.org/
Resource for databases and standards
FAIR in Biological Practice A more in depth course on Open data and FAIR in practice. We run this workshop throughout the year, but the materials can be found in the link