Reflectance (Transformation Imaging) Reflections TAGS: CHDS | Digital Imaging Unit | Reflectance Transformation Imaging | RTI Reflectance Transformation Imaging, or RTI as it is more commonly known, is described as ‘a computational photographic method that captures a subject’s surface shape and color and enables the interactive …Continue reading →

Knowledge Exchange Week 2024 – Reflections TAGS: CHDS | Cultural Heritage Digitisation | Digital Imaging Unit | digital library | Edinburgh | Library | University of Edinburgh Library Last month, team members Marian and Miranda attended Knowledge Exchange Week, hosted by the University of Edinburgh. This was the fifth time the event had been held, and the theme …Continue reading →

Looking Ahead – Our 2024 Project Preview TAGS: CHDS | Cultural Heritage Digitisation | Digital Imaging Unit | Edinburgh | Esther Inglis | High Quality Photography | LGBTQIA+ | Lothian Health Service Archive | LUNA | Lyell Notebooks | Scotland | Sir Charles Lyell | The Witness Newspaper I began working with the Cultural Heritage Digitisation Services team last November, as a Digitisation Operator. Before joining the team, I was digitising plant specimens in the Herbarium of the …Continue reading →

Back to the Wall: A Year of Experimenting with the Main Library’s Digital Wall TAGS: Digital Imaging Unit | Digital Wall | Edinburgh College of Art | photography | students | Talks | University of Edinburgh Library The Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service (CHDS) has managed the Main Library’s Digital Wall since it was installed in late 2019.1 The Wall is made up of two sets of nine …Continue reading →

From Castles to Cradle: Photographing the Lyell Notebooks TAGS: Centre for Research Collections | conservation | Digital Imaging Unit | Geology and Geologists | High Quality Photography | Lyell Notebooks | Sir Charles Lyell I was delighted to take on the challenge of helping photograph the University’s collection of notebooks of geologist Sir Charles Lyell, and there’s a bit more to photographing 300 notebooks …Continue reading →

Digital Wall Student Experience Internships TAGS: Centre for Research Collections | Covid-19 | Digital Imaging Unit | Digital Wall | strategy This past Winter 2019/20 the Digital Imaging Unit and Centre for Research Collections Museums teams hosted two student interns to support the development of the new Digital Wall, which opened …Continue reading →