Reconstructing Order: Collaboration and Complexity within Sir Charles Lyell’s Archival Legacy The Sir Charles Lyell Project has technically finished, and our final blogs will offer some guidance for access and future use – BUT – we just want to share a …Continue reading →

Getting to Grips with Goobi on the Lyell Albums TAGS: CHDS | Cultural Heritage Digitisation | Goobi | High Quality Photography | Sir Charles Lyell If you have been following the CHDS blog for the past few years you will have seen some of our content relating to the digitisation of the Charles Lyell Collection …Continue reading →

Post-mortem: Why the UK Government Copyright & AI Consultation Left No One Satisfied TAGS: AI training | artificial intelligence | copyright | copyright exception | data mining | TDM | text and data mining | UK Government consultation The UK Government Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Consultation ended on Tuesday, 25th February 2025. The consultation was initiated due to ongoing disputes regarding the application of UK copyright law to …Continue reading →

Kinship and Calligraphy: Esther Inglis as a Daughter, Wife, and Mother This post explores the family dynamics of Esther Inglis and their impact on her work. It is written by Jaycee Streeter, Outreach and Communications Intern for the Esther Inglis Project. …Continue reading →

Activism and Social Change in LGBT+ History TAGS: activism | Archives | Books | Dissertation and Thesis Festival | e-books | e-resources | LGBT+ History | LGBT+ History Month | LGBTQ+ studies | LHSA | Libby | Library | lothian health services archive | online resources | primary sources | research | resources | social change In February we celebrate LGBT+ History Month 2025 in the UK and this year the theme is ‘Activism and Social Change’. Throughout history and across the globe LGBT+ activists have …Continue reading →

Dear Library, I love you / I am breaking up with you because…. TAGS: Events | Law libraries | law library | Letters | library services | news | old college | update | Valentine Happy February all! With Valentine’s day fast approaching, the Law Library has decided to run again the very successful ‘Love Letters to the Library’. The idea for these Love Letters …Continue reading →

New to the Library: Bibliography of the History and Archaeology of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages TAGS: Archaeology | Byzantium | databases | Eastern Europe | Eurasia | Europe | history | Middle Ages | Scandinavia Following a successful trial the Library now has a subscription to Brill’s Bibliography of the History and Archaeology of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages. A fundamental source of information …Continue reading →

Meet the RESP Fieldwork Interns Written by: Katie Shepherd, RESP Fieldwork Intern Hello world! I’m Katie, a Masters student at the University of Edinburgh studying Musicology. In collaboration with Ailsa, a final-year undergraduate student in Ethnology, …Continue reading →

DataShare spotlight: Human MotionLess Dataset (HuMoLs) and the creative potential of research data TAGS: data reuse | DataShare | Edinburgh DataShare | open data | videos For the second installment of the spotlight on DataShare blog posts, I would like to showcase a fascinating item containing videos of people not doing anything! The dataset in question …Continue reading →

Knowledge Exchange with Japan TAGS: Collaboration Two members of the Research Data Support team recently had an adventure visiting Japan in order to provide practical lessons to library students and librarians studying in a research data …Continue reading →