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April 19, 2024
Introducing Whiiif – Full text searching across image-based collections TAGS: API | collections | Development | digital scholarship | IIIF | images | library labs | OCR | open source | technology | whiiif Background For historical collections digitisation projects inside the library, we are increasingly looking to provide OCR transcriptions of the documents alongside the digital images. In many cases, this can enhance …Continue reading →
ArchivesSpace at the University of Edinburgh – the techie side TAGS: API | Archives | ArchivesSpace | Development Introducing ArchivesSpace for researchers and public users, as well as the administrative side for our Archives Team within the Centre for Research Collections, has been an ongoing project for the …Continue reading →
Month 2 project meeting TAGS: API | data library | JISC | JISC Data Spring | JISC Data Vault The Data Vault project is three months long, and is a collaboration between the universities of Edinburgh and Manchester. Due to the short nature of the project, we have decided …Continue reading →
Archival Provenance Project: a glimpse into the university’s history through some of its oldest manuscripts
My name is Madeleine Reynolds, a fourth year PhD candidate in History of Art....
Rediscovering the Poetry of Louisa Agnes Czarnecki, a 19th-Century Edinburgh Writer and Musician
Today we are publishing a blog by Ash Mowat, a volunteer in the Civic Engagement...
Giving Decorated Paper a Home … Rehousing Books and Paper Bindings
In the first post of this two part series, our Collection Care Technician, Robyn Rogers,...
The Book Surgery Part 2: Bringing Everything Together
In this blog, Project Conservator Mhairi Boyle her second day of in-situ book conservation training...
