Victory Medal (aka Inter Allied Victory Medal) – a medal of the First World War TAGS: Victory Medal | William Hunter (1861-1937) | William McMillan (1887-1977) CAMPAIGN MEDAL AWARDED TO WILLIAM HUNTER (1861-1937) – GREAT WAR The Victory Medal was also called the Inter Allied Victory Medal. It was awarded to those received the 1914 Star …Continue reading →

The Return of the Sailor: William Gifford Wyllie’s MD ‘War neuroses. 150 cases in h. m. navy’ The wounded soldier in the lower left angle was suffering from shell-shock [1] 2017 marks the centenary of the fourth year of British fighting in World War I. It was …Continue reading →

Research Data Management Forum: Third meeting – 28/03/2017 Harkening back to a bygone era of libraries, when books were printed on paper and research data management meant not accidentally burning your notes with your candle, the third meeting …Continue reading →

EDINA’s ShareGeo Open content into DataShare Many fascinating datasets can be found in our new ShareGeo Open Collection: http://datashare.is.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/2345  . This data represents the entire contents of EDINA’s geospatial repository, ShareGeo Open, successfully imported into DataShare. …Continue reading →

NEW! Rhizomata: a journal for ancient philosophy & science TAGS: Philosophy | science We now have full access from volume 1 to this De Gruyter title, first published in 2013.

‘BLAST’ – a journal that will ‘try and brave the waves of blood, for the serious mission it has on the other side of World-War’ TAGS: 'Blast' | Vorticism | Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) ‘…THIS PUCE-COLOURED COCKLESHELL […] HAS TO SPRING UP AGAIN WITH NEW QUESTIONS AND BEAUTIES WHEN EUROPE HAS DISPOSED OF ITS DIFFICULTIES…’ These were the words of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), editor …Continue reading →

How to make good use of the NDL Digital Collections for Japanese Studies TAGS: Japanese | NDL The National Diet Library of Japan has released an online training course on how to make good use of their NDL Digital Collections for Japanese Studies outside Japan. The course is delivered …Continue reading →

DataVault Update March 2017 Following on from the Jisc Research Data Spring the universities of Manchester and Edinburgh have been continuing to develop DataVault.  Both institutions are currently planning local implementations, whilst working together …Continue reading →

20,000th item in the Edinburgh Research Archive TAGS: ERA | open access | PhD We are delighted to announce the deposit of the 20,000th item into our institutional repository the Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA). ERA is a digital repository of original research which contains …Continue reading →

IIIF Technical Workshop and Showcase March 2017 Improving Access to Image Collections On 16th and 17th March the University of Edinburgh and National Library of Scotland will be hosting two International Image Interoperability Framework events. IIIF Showcase …Continue reading →