Edinburgh hosts international IIIF event TAGS: Conferences | Development | IIIF | Library Jointly with the National Library of Scotland, the University hosted the annual IIIF Showcase and Working Meeting from December 3-6. As consortial members, it was a good opportunity for both …Continue reading →

Reflections on Repository Fringe 2017 TAGS: arts data | data curation | DataVault | Humanities data | librarians | Repository Fringe | Research Data The following is a guest post by Mick Eadie, Research Information Management Officer at University of Glasgow, on his impressions of Repository Fringe 2017. From the Arts The first day afternoon 10×10 (lightning …Continue reading →

Crowdsourcing Conservation at the CRC TAGS: crowdsourcing | Laing | rehousing | students | volunteers In this week’s blog, Special Collections Conservator Emily, describes the highly successful crowdsourcing conservation event held in February at the CRC… In February, we held our first ever conservation crowdsourcing event …Continue reading →

Printmaking: Identification, Preservation and Creation TAGS: art | Edinburgh | festival of museums | linocut | Printmaking | University of Edinburgh Immerse yourself in all things print! Join our conservators, Emily and Katharine, for an evening of preservation and printmaking. For centuries artists have been using different printing techniques to depict …Continue reading →

Crowdsourcing Conservation TAGS: acid-free boxes | acid-free folders | crowdsourcing conservation | Laing | rehousing During the Festival of Creative Learning (20-24 February 2017), we will be hosting our first ever conservation crowdsourcing event! Over a two-day period (20-21 February), with the help of 30 participants, we aim …Continue reading →

Paper Conservators: News and Ideas Exchange 2016 TAGS: discussion | ideas exchange | Paper conservators This week’s blog post comes from Conservation Volunteers Mathilde Renauld and Paula Burbicka, who recently attended a paper conservators new and ideas exchange event at the CRC…. Scotland’s Paper Conservators …Continue reading →

Thing of the Month TAGS: ECA | Edinburgh University Art Collection | lecture | Picasso Starting next week is our new event at ECA: Thing of the Month. Head over to E12 on your lunch break to get a close up look at a thing from the Art …Continue reading →

Non-standard research outputs TAGS: arts data | data curation | DCC | Humanities data I recently attended (13th May 2014) the one-day ‘Non-standard Research Outputs’ workshop at Nottingham Trent University. [ 1 ] The day started with Prof Tony Kent and his introduction to …Continue reading →

‘The object of art is to give life shape’: Festival of Museums Fun! TAGS: Alan Davie | Archives | art | Collage | Edinburgh College of Art | Eduardo Paolozzi | festival of museums On Saturday we hosted a talk and create workshop at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) with Drawing and Painting Lecturer Joan Smith. This was to celebrate the 1940s for the …Continue reading →

Data and ethics TAGS: arts data | big data | Humanities data | open data As an academic support person, I was surprised to find myself invited onto a roundtable about ‘The Ethics of Data-Intensive Research’. Although as a data librarian I’m certainly qualified to …Continue reading →