IIIF Conference, Göttingen, June 2019 TAGS: Archives | Conferences | Development | IIIF | Manuscripts | Museums The Western European heatwave coincided perfectly with this year’s IIIF Conference in Göttingen, causing many a delegate to hastily clamour to the thrift stores to obtain more appropriate attire for …Continue reading →

Edinburgh hosts international IIIF event TAGS: Conferences | Development | IIIF | Library Jointly with the National Library of Scotland, the University hosted the annual IIIF Showcase and Working Meeting from December 3-6. As consortial members, it was a good opportunity for both …Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

IIIF – International Image Interoperability Framework TAGS: Conferences | Development | Digital | IIIF | images | LUNA The adoption of IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) has been gaining momentum over the past few years for digitised images. Adoption of IIIF for serving images allows users to rotate, …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 →

IDCC 2014 – take home thoughts TAGS: Conferences | IDCC14 | research | Research Data A few weeks ago I attended the 9th International Digital Curation Conference in San Francisco.  The conference was spread over four days, with two days for workshops, and two for …Continue reading →

Repository Fringe 2013 TAGS: Conferences | Development | OJS | open access | Tools Repository Fringe 2013 ran from July 31- August 2 in the Dugald Stewart Informatics Building. It was, yet again, a successful event, with around 85 attendees over the three days. …Continue reading →