IIIF Conference, Washington, May 2018 TAGS: Archives | collections | Conferences | Development | IIIF | LUNA | Museums We (Joe Marshall (Head of Special Collections) and Scott Renton (Library Digital Development)) visited Washington DC for the IIIF Conference from 21st-25th May. This was a great opportunity for L&UC, …Continue reading →

Automated item data extraction from old documents TAGS: automation | collections | image processing | library labs | OCR | Scottish Session Papers | technology Overview The Problem We have a collection of historic papers from the Scottish Court of Session. These are collected into cases and bound together in large volumes, with no catalogue …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 →

Bridging Gaps at the British Museum TAGS: collections | Conferences | Development | Digital | Library The overwhelming setting of the British Museum played host to this year’s Museums Computer Group “Museums and the Web” Conference, and as usual, a big turnout from museums institutions all …Continue reading →

Do it like they do on the DiscoverEd channel TAGS: Annexe | collections | DiscoverEd | Library | Library Annexe | Search | University of Edinburgh DiscoverED, the University of Edinburgh’s new one step information, discovery and delivery service, is now on-line and fully operational. You can request Library Annexe items using the new service; all …Continue reading →

Tag It, Find It! TAGS: Art Collection | collections | Edinburgh College of Art | fine art | gaming | ILW | metadata | Noreen and Kenneth Murray Library | Tagging Pop-up Library is back for a limited time only in Innovative Learning Week (ILW) and we want you to say what you see! Combining two of our most popular Pop-up Library …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 →

Get the best from the Library week @Pop-up Library TAGS: collections | databases | information skills | Library Academic Support | online resources | researching a topic All next week, 27th-31st October, the afternoon Pop-up Library sessions are being taken over by the Library Academic Support team for Get the Best from the Library Week. Get the …Continue reading →

Referendum TAGS: collections | independence | indyref | referendum | union So, what have our collections to say about the referendum? More than you may think.  The Referendum is not an isolated event but sits within a historic time-line. Our collections …Continue reading →

Colophon and Logotype TAGS: collections | colophon | Library | logotype | rare books Having a background in Fine Art through study at Glasgow School of Art I am very aware of the striking visual content that passes through the Digital Imaging Unit on …Continue reading →