Metadata Games at #Librarypop! TAGS: images | metadata | Tagging Following on from last month’s successful Metadata Games experiment, we ran another two sessions during Fresher’s Week as part of the Pop Up Library. More than 20 people, including 16 …Continue reading →

Metadata Fun and Games TAGS: crowdsourcing | images | metadata Earlier this week we ran a 1980s-inspired crowdsourcing ‘Metadata Game’ to enhance the description of items within our online image collection http://images.is.ed.ac.uk. The good folk of Library and University Collections …Continue reading →

Picturing heaven : online image resources for religious art #ILW2013 TAGS: Christian | Divinity | images | innovative learning week | New College Library | online | religion Find out about the new Princeton Index to Christian Art plus the many other online image resources available to the University of Edinburgh. This Innovative Learning Week session is open …Continue reading →

Princeton Index of Christian Art now available TAGS: art | Christianity | church history | Divinity | History of Christianity | iconography | images | medieval | University of Edinburgh The Princeton Index of Christian Art is now available to University of Edinburgh users – see the list of Image Databases. The Index of Christian Art, produced by Princeton University, …Continue reading →

Walking with Angels? Exploring Death in Modern Scotland TAGS: angels | death | Divinity | images | nineteenth-century | online | Special Collections | twentieth-century | University of Edinburgh There are still places available at the forthcoming conference on Death in Modern Scotland , 1855: beliefs, attitudes and practices at the School of Divinity, New College Edinburgh, on 1-3 …Continue reading →

New College Library image collections online TAGS: Funk | images | New College Library | online | Special Collections | University of Edinburgh I’m very pleased to be able to tell you that over 200 images from New College Library’s collections are now available online through the University of Edinburgh Image Collections database. …Continue reading →