March Update from LOCH TAGS: open access I realise we’ve been a bit quiet recently, so it is high time we posted an update to let you know what we have been doing over the last few months! …Continue reading →

Europeana Tech Conference, Paris, Feb 2015 TAGS: Europeana | LibraryLabs | metadata The Europeana Tech conference took place in Paris on February 12-13, 2015. A fascinating event, developers and strategists from institutions all over Europe got the chance to exchange ideas about …Continue reading →

SPS have top Resource List of semester one! TAGS: reading list | Resource Lists @ Edinburgh | Sociology Sociology 1A had the most used Resource List of semester one, 2014/15, with an average of 67.3 visits per student. Find out what the course organisers, tutors and students thought …Continue reading →

Our most viewed images of 2014: numbers 5-1 Following on from yesterday’s publication of numbers 10-6, the top five most viewed images from images.is.ed.ac.uk 2014 can now be revealed! No.5: Khush khati (calligraphy), 17th / 18th century From …Continue reading →

Our most viewed images of 2014: Numbers 10 – 6 TAGS: collections | CRC | DIU The counting is complete and we can now exclusively reveal the top ten most viewed images in our online database for 2014. Numbers 10 – 6 are displayed below – …Continue reading →

Google Glass, gaming and Gallimaufry TAGS: gallimaufry | gamification | Google Glass | technology Last Monday was no typical day at the office: after an early start at the Imperial War Museum exploring its First World War exhibition with Google Glass, I finished the …Continue reading →

Weekend with the Gallimaufry: Edinburgh University images added to Metadata Games Tiltfactor and the University of Edinburgh, Library and University Collections are excited to announce the addition of over 2,500 images from the University of Edinburgh to the Metadata Games platform. This collection, …Continue reading →

MCG : Museums Beyond the Web Conference TAGS: Museums | Special Collections The Natural History Museum in London was the setting for the Museum Computer Group‘s Museums Beyond The Web Conference, on November 7th. There was a certain aptness to the venue, …Continue reading →

Musical Instruments in Hi-Res MIMEd and LDD can report on a bit of workflow closure! There is now a LUNA collection up for Musical Instruments Museums at Edinburgh, which can be accessed through the …Continue reading →

UKSG October webinar: The University Library as publisher. Can you? Should you? This webinar was held on Wednesday 29 October 2014 and was jointly presented by colleagues from the Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh. The idea of the webinar was to …Continue reading →