
Changes to prices for accessing Scottish datasets
By Professor Roger Halliday, CEO of Researcher Data Scotland and Carole Morris, Head of Service at Public Health Scotland
Roger Halliday
24 Mar 2025
Adam Coulson | Average reading time 2 minutes
31 Mar 2025
Adam Coulson, Delivery Manager at Research Data Scotland (RDS), shares an update on the latest release of our metadata catalogue and explores some of the ways we’re improving the data discovery journey for researchers.
We recently pushed a new release of the Research Data Scotland metadata catalogue, designed to enhance data discovery and accessibility for researchers.
This update introduces a range of new features and improvements aimed at streamlining the user experience, enriching the metadata records and making it easier for researchers to find and access valuable datasets.
Enhanced page layout
Improved dataset discovery
Expanded dataset information
These enhancements are part of our ongoing commitment to making data more accessible, discoverable, and usable for researchers. By refining the layout, improving navigation, and introducing tailored filtering options, we aim to create a seamless experience that supports data-driven research and decision-making.
These developments respond to feedback where researchers highlighted a lack of consistency across catalogues. Now, the dataset information a researcher sees on the RDS metadata catalogue matches what they might see when browsing the HDR Gateway or the ADR UK Data Catalogue.
We’re continuing to work with our partners to improve the datasets in the RDS metadata catalogue, with new datasets being added on a regular basis.
We’re also working to make more synthetic data available to researchers after launching synthetic datasets for National Records of Scotland in December 2024.
We’d love to know what you think of this new release, so please visit the RDS metadata catalogue and submit your feedback via this short form.
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