The Greatest Gaelic Book Collector? Professor Donald MacKinnon (1839–1914), the University of Edinburgh, and the MacKinnon Collection TAGS: Book collecting | Crofters | Gaelic | Highlands | Professor of Celtic | Scotland We have recently completed the online cataloguing of the MacKinnon Collection, of books of and about Scottish life and literature, and rich in books in Gaelic.  Our colleague and expert …Continue reading →

CSV Mind-Blow(ve)n! TAGS: Conferences | crowdsourcing | csv | Development | Digital | images | Metadata Games | open source | spreadsheets | technology I was lucky enough to have a paper accepted to Csv,conf,2* in Berlin on the 3rd-4th of May, which was great to do, but it also got me through the …Continue reading →

Library Digital Development investigate IIIF TAGS: collections | Development | IIIF | images | Library | library labs Quick caveat: this post is a partner to the one Claire Knowles has written about our signing up to the IIIF Consortium, so the explanation of the acronym will not …Continue reading →

Open Access Technical Workshop – ‘Un-Report’ Hello All, Here is the ‘un-report’ from our 4th April event looking at system functionality for Open Access.  It mainly consists of informal notes and verbatim comments from the day. …Continue reading →

Planning future sprints We’re now in the third phase of the DataVault project, and as previously discussed, we are using fortnightly development sprints to undertake the remaining development tasks.  Following our monthly project …Continue reading →

APCs paid “in the wild” As part of the LOCH project we have been looking at the problems of identifying Article Processing Charges (APCs) that the Library is not currently aware of – which we colloquially …Continue reading →

When is a hill a hill? Mapping, “occular inspection” and the problem of standardisation in Robert Douglas’s General View of the Agriculture in the Counties of Roxburgh and Selkirk In October 1795, Sir John Sinclair asked Rev. Robert Douglas of Galashiels to “assist the Board of Agriculture” by updating and republishing the County Surveys of Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire. Sinclair …Continue reading →

Open Access Technical Workshop   Yesterday saw the LOCH and End-to-End projects host a joint event at Glasgow’s Hilton Grosvenor Hotel to look at technical issues related to Open Access policcy compliance for the …Continue reading →

Dynamic Research Support for Academic Libraries – Edinburgh Case Study This week saw the publication of a new Facet Publishing title: Dynamic Research Support for Academic Libraries – a book which is aimed at enabling academic librarians to develop excellent …Continue reading →

II: 100th anniversary of ‘Zeppelin’ air attack on Edinburgh – Incendiary bombs and the Infirmary Following on from Archibald Campbell’s account of the Zeppelin raid on Edinburgh and Leith one hundred years ago this weekend, minutes and images from Lothian Health Services Archive (LHSA) reveal …Continue reading →