Reflectance (Transformation Imaging) Reflections TAGS: CHDS | Digital Imaging Unit | Reflectance Transformation Imaging | RTI Reflectance Transformation Imaging, or RTI as it is more commonly known, is described as ‘a computational photographic method that captures a subject’s surface shape and color and enables the interactive …Continue reading →

Documentation Challenges in Practice: Art Collection Barcoding Project TAGS: Barcodes | collections care | Collections Management | Disassociation | Documentation | Edinburgh University Art Collections | Labels In this week’s blog, our Art Collection Documentation Assistant Gaby Cortes discusses some of the challenges involved in auditing the Art Collection and how the addition of barcode labels is …Continue reading →

Esther Inglis at the Wormsley Library Among the exquisite bindings and unique collections of the Library in the Wormsley Estate, Oxfordshire, are three manuscripts by Esther Inglis. One of these, a calligraphic copy of Les Proverbes …Continue reading →

LibKey Nomad – one click-link to full-text TAGS: e-books | e-resources | full-text | LibKey Nomad | online resources Have you ever had that frustrating experience of searching on the web and finding a useful resource, but not sure whether the Library has access to it? Searching for academic …Continue reading →

The Art of Writing: A Journey Through Handwriting Evolution and Imitation This post looks at the development of handwriting and its practice in Western Europe, as seen through examples from the University of Edinburgh Library’s Special Collections.  It was written by …Continue reading →

DataShare Spotlight: The Hiberlink project, and anticipating change in a data repository TAGS: archiving data | DataShare | Digital Preservation | metadata | reference rot | research integrity While looking through DataShare for datasets about research practice, I found the Hiberlink project dataset [1], which perfectly illustrates some of the challenges the changing digital research landscape poses to …Continue reading →

An Update on Digital Preservation in Library & University Collections Recap on Digital Preservation It may seem quiet, but we’ve been very busy in digital preservation over in Library & University Collections! A quick recap – L&UC looks after a …Continue reading →

What to do when the Library doesn’t have what you need? TAGS: Book requests | Books | DiscoverEd | dissertation | e-books | inter-library loan | Library | National Library of Scotland | Request A Book | research | resources | Scan and Deliver | SCONUL Access | using the library At the University Library you have access to a huge range of material for your research and learning including over 2 million books, archives, instruments and artworks, over 2 million …Continue reading →

DataShare spotlight: Debates on slavery and abolition held by student debating societies at the University of Edinburgh, 1765-1870 TAGS: DataShare | Decolonisation | historical data The best part of my job is looking through the new datasets submitted to DataShare, our open-access data repository. One of the first datasets that gripped me was; Debates on …Continue reading →

Library Databases search box now live! TAGS: databases | DiscoverEd | information skills | Law | law library | Legal databases | Library | library services | online resources | research | resources | subject So, how have you been searching for databases for your studies so far? Have you been using the link from myEd? Or perhaps going straight to the Databases A-Z list …Continue reading →