Documenting I.C.28 TAGS: Anatomy | bodysnatchers | bones | Burke | Burke and Hare | Centre for Research Collections | Centre for Research Collections Digital Imaging Unit | CHDS | collections | composite | conservation | crime | cultural heritage | Cultural Heritage Digitisation | Digital Imaging | Edinburgh | edinburgh crime | High Quality Photography | Library | medical history | National Museum of Scotland | photography | Scotland | skeleton | skull | true crime | University of Edinburgh | University of Edinburgh Digital Imaging Unit | University of Edinburgh Library | victorian Last summer, I spent five days photographing the skeleton of William Burke to document recent conservation as a record for future collection care. The remains had been conserved and cleaned …Continue reading →

The Anatomy of the Horse Recently I digitised Carlo Ruini’s ‘Anatomia Del Cavallo’ (The Anatomy of the Horse, Diseases and Treatments) as part of our Iconic’s collection on our i2S V-shape cradle scanner. It is …Continue reading →

Victorian Veterinary Journals Recently I worked on digitising a small number of volumes of The Veterinary Journal from the late 19th century and late 20th century. Almost 100 years apart, the earlier volumes …Continue reading →

Around the World in 90 years- the Story of Historic Leith Improvement Scheme Photographs When Fraser Parkinson first contacted us about the collection of historic photographs of Leith that he had been entrusted with, my colleagues and I at the Centre for Research Collections …Continue reading →

DIU Moving Image Update The work that DIU are developing around moving image has grown considerably in the last two years and the demand for moving image has increased exponentially with each new film …Continue reading →

A lot of scanning and a little context I am now coming to the end of my internship here in the Digital Imaging Unit. Over the past twelve weeks I have been responsible for digitising a large number …Continue reading →

Photo Bombed A large order from the Lothian Health Services Archive came our way recently, which included postcards from the hospital & group portraits of staff and patients. In amongst them I …Continue reading →

It’s Not All Books… As photographers for the Special Collections in the University of Edinburgh Main Library, we’ve seen a fair amount of beautiful books and manuscripts, but the diversity of the collections, both …Continue reading →

The Universal Herbal Fascinating book of the month requested for digitisation in the DIU goes to Thomas Greens “The Universal Herbal; or, botanical, medical, and agricultural dictionary. Containing an account of all the …Continue reading →

Happy New Year! Have you been doing too much of this recently? And started the year with a splitting headache… Or maybe you got stranded by the winter storms…. And had to be …Continue reading →