“A Beautiful Way to Remember” – Digitising the LHSA’s HIV/AIDS Collections TAGS: AIDS Crisis | AIDS Memorial Quilt | Bookeye | HIV | LGBTQIA+ | Lothian Health Service Archive | NHS | scanning At the beginning of this year, I started in my role as the Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service’s new Digitisation Assistant. As part of the team responsible for providing the main …Continue reading →

Introducing a 3D Digitisation Service: Feasible or Fantasy? TAGS: 3D Digitisation | 3D Modelling | Cultural Heritage Digitisation | Internship | Photogrammetry | University of Edinburgh Library For the past eleven weeks I’ve had the opportunity to intern with the Digital Imaging Unit, working on a project to evaluate the potential of establishing a 3D digitisation service within the department. “3D digitisation” in …Continue reading →

Lyell’s School of Rock TAGS: Edinburgh | Geology and Geologists | Lyell Notebooks | Sir Charles Lyell | University of Edinburgh Digital Imaging Unit | University of Edinburgh Library   In November 2019 the Library excitedly welcomed Sir Charles Lyell’s two hundred and ninety-four notebooks into its Special Collections. With support and funding from leading institutions, groups and donations …Continue reading →

Digital Wall Student Experience Internships TAGS: Centre for Research Collections | Covid-19 | Digital Imaging Unit | Digital Wall | strategy This past Winter 2019/20 the Digital Imaging Unit and Centre for Research Collections Museums teams hosted two student interns to support the development of the new Digital Wall, which opened …Continue reading →

New Digital Imaging Unit Website TAGS: Digital Engagement | Digital Engagement Internship | Service Development | User Experience | Web Design Guest post by Meg Dolan (MScR Collections and Curating Practices, 2020) and Keith Bossert (MSc History of the Book, 2020) This summer we had the opportunity to intern with the …Continue reading →

Tips for Searching Image Collections TAGS: Image Collections The Digital Imaging Unit hosts the digitised content it has produced on a site called Image Collections. This site is available for searching, sharing, exporting, and reusing publically available and …Continue reading →

Dong Ding The Boundary of Balance – Documentary Condition Photography The Art Collection acquired one piece from Dong Ding’s sculptural jewellery collection Boundary of Balance; a series of works which explores the relationship and tension between balance and imbalance.  Each …Continue reading →

Incunabula: Fables, foliage and a female Pope TAGS: Incunabula I was lucky enough to be involved in the Incunabula pilot project here in the Digital Imaging Unit. This project  helped to create a digitisation workflow for Incunabula collection items …Continue reading →

Baltic, Books and Solidarity: Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT) International Staff Week I was delighted to be able to participate in the 4th International Staff Week at the Biblioteki Politechniki Gdańskiej recently. I work as the Senior Photographer for Edinburgh University’s Library …Continue reading →

Doodles and Discoveries: Scottish Court of Session Papers We are now well in the midst of the Scottish Court of Session Papers Phase 2 Pilot. In this stage of the project, we are concentrating on digitising three hundred …Continue reading →