Minimum Preservation for Maximum Results? It’s a good idea if it works! In less than a week, iPres22 will kick off in Glasgow, right on our doorstep! If you’re not already acquainted with iPres, welcome! There’s something for everyone! iPres is the …Continue reading →

Student Interns Capture ‘The Student’ TAGS: Bookeye | Edinburgh | Internship | newspaper | scanning | Student Journalism | students | The Student In February 2022, PhD students Vesna Curlic and Ash Charlton began their digitisation internships in partnership with the University of Edinburgh’s Library and University Collections and the Centre for Data, …Continue reading →

Data Mindfulness – learning the basics of good research data management TAGS: Data mindfulness When planning a research project, whether this involves carrying out interviews for a first dissertation project or analysing secondary data for a PhD, it is important to ensure that you …Continue reading →

iPres Delegate Visit to the University of Edinburgh As part of iPres 2022 hosted in Glasgow on 12-16 September, the University of Edinburgh will welcome a cohort of conference delegates to tour the Main Library and St. Cecilia’s …Continue reading →

Under Construction Nothing to see here! Check back soon for updates about digital preservation at the University of Edinburgh!

Edinburgh Open Research Conference Proceedings TAGS: conference | EOR One of the ambitions for the EOR conference held in March, 2022, when we first started planning it was to make it as open and accessible as possible. To achieve …Continue reading →

My Experience as a DAMS Metadata Intern TAGS: DAMS | Digital Asset Management | Digital Preservation | Internship | metadata | students My name is Muminah and I’m about to enter my final year of studying Computer Science and Maths. For the past couple of months I’ve worked as a Digital Asset …Continue reading →

An Interesting Introduction to One Health In today’s blog we hear from our new Project Conservator, Mhairi Boyle. Mhairi recently finished a maternity cover post conserving the CRC’s Special Collections and is very excited to be …Continue reading →

Bearing Witness: The Pre-Digitisation Conservation Treatment of The Witness, Part 2 Today we have the second instalment of a two-part series by Projects Conservator Mhairi Boyle. Mhairi spent April 2022 working on The Witness, a collection of Edinburgh-based newspapers held by …Continue reading →

New to the Library: The Telegraph Historical Archive TAGS: 19th century | 20th century | 21st century | Archives | Britain | cultural history | databases | history | Newspapers | primary source | social history I’m very pleased to let you know that the Library has recently purchased The Telegraph Historical Archive, 1855-2016 from Gale, the fully searchable digital archive of what was once the …Continue reading →