Angus Whyte, Digital Curation Centre, is a Senior Institutional Support Officer at the Digital Curation Centre, University of Edinburgh. He provides advice and consultancy to UK higher education institutions to help them develop services for research data management. Angus's background is in social informatics research, gaining his PhD in Information Science from University of Strathclyde in 1998. He has particular interests in 'soft' infrastructure development for research data management support and data publishing. He has authored a range of guidance publications most recently on the topics of data appraisal, data repository selection, and requirements gathering. Previously Angus carried out research on technology applications in the context of public engagement in policy making.