Anon Art Another visual essay from me this week. I thought it would be interesting to share a closer look at the amazing work of the invisible artists who populate the title …Continue reading →

A Rocky Start to the Week This week saw the start of a small project to digitise some papers that recently came to the CRC from the The Cockburn Museum, School of GeoSciences. The collection contains …Continue reading →

Penguins and Social Life Last year the Salvesen Collection, which has been in the possession of the University since 1969, was given permission to make the images publically available online for the first time. …Continue reading →

A Spring Time Natural History Maybe it is this lovely spring weather that has got me thinking about the wonderful books on Natural History in our Collections. Perhaps the most notable of which is  The …Continue reading →

New Images & New Collection Publically Available Last week we were very pleased to make 864 new images available to the public. In the DIU we had recently completed a batch of nearly 1000 high quality images …Continue reading →

Volunteer work at the Digital Imaging Unit TAGS: Adamson | Hill | photography The Centre for Research Collections is a remarkable resource for students at Edinburgh University, not only for research purposes, but also for experience working with collections.  I am an MSc …Continue reading →

Beasties I’ve seen a startling number of beasties hiding out in our Collections over the years, and the time has come to celebrate them! From the delightful details in the margins …Continue reading →

New Ways Of Seeing TAGS: Ms 195 A large part of what we do in the Digital Imaging Unit is fulfilling digitisation requests from all over the world from researchers and academics who want access to our …Continue reading →

French Bible Historial Now Available in Book Reader When we started at the DIU at the beginning 2004, a project to digitise a beautiful French Bible known to us as Ms 19 was already half completed, our first …Continue reading →

Volunteering in the DIU I have been volunteering with the Digital Imaging Unit for about a year, during which time I have been researching and adding metadata to their digital collection, as well as …Continue reading →