Welcome to the Database Group at Edinburgh

The School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh has a new and growing database group. It is part of the Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science; it leads the research activities of the Digital Curation Centre; and it has connections with the National e-Science Centre and other organizations involved with scientific databases. The group participates in the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries.

Interests of the group span all aspects of database systems and theory. Topics of current interest include semistructured data and XML, data integration, novel approaches to query processing and storage, data provenance, archiving and annotation. Many of these topics are relevant to scientific data management, an area in which Edinburgh has unique strengths.

Recruiting: Postdoctoral researchers and PhD students.

Scotland-DB Mailing List: A mailing list for Scottish Database Interest Group. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the scotland-db archives. (The current archive is only available to the list members.) To subscribe to scotland-db, click here .

This Wiki documents various subjects relating to the work of the Informatics Database Group:

• CollaborationResources
• DatabaseMachines
• DataSets
• DatabaseGroupPublicationsTest

The Database Group is closely affiliated with the Digital Curation Centre (DCC). The following are links to DCC resources:

• Digital Curation Centre Homepage
• Digital Curation Centre Development Home

-- CarwynEdwards - 26 Aug 2005