Reading Time: 1 minuteI’ve written a little bit before about my work connected with the mural paintings of Phoebe Anna Traquair, and this week we had a lovely gathering to celebrate the 25th anniversary of our Friends organisation. I took the opportunity to share a few of the … Continue reading Mortuary Chapel, Revisited
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University of Edinburgh Library and Collections has a huge number of image collections with a wide range of art, science, portraits, people, cartoons and photographs. We would like to open up some of these images to make them more discoverable and usable as images of role models, women in science, women in medicine, diverse groups …
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It’s that time of year again. If I can navigate the train strikes I’ll be heading down to Liverpool on Monday for the annual ALT Conference where we’ll be reforming the ALTC Social Media Super Group with Martin Hawksey on filming and live feeds, Rich Goodman on media tweets, Chris Bull on photography, and me […]
Read moreRegistration is now open for the third UoE Open Knowledge Network event which will take place on Tuesday 4th July from 13.45 – 16.30 in Argyle House, University of Edinburgh. Please register via MyEd: http://edin.ac/2slQTjv In response to feedback from participants, this event will be focused on discussion and ideas. Participants will have an opportunity to suggest ideas and choose topics they’d like to explore. All topics related to open data, open access, open education, open research, open collections and archives, and open…
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Last week I wrote a reflective blog post about starting out on the CMALT journey, What do you do?, and was delighted to get lots of really helpful practical input from the ALT community on twitter. I’ve captured the advice and discussions in a Storify here Starting CMALT – Advice from the community so I can look back on them and in […]
Read moreThe event will take place in room 6 & 7, Floor E, Argyle House. 09.30 – 10.00 Coffee and networking 10.00 – 10.05 Welcome – Ewan Klein & Lorna M. Campbell Presentations 10.05 – 10.20 Gavin Wilshaw – Thesis digitisation project 10.20 – 10.35 Alex Chow – World Christianity & Wikipedia 10.35 – 10.50 Jeremy Knox – Algorithms and MOOCs 10.50 – 11.05 Jo Spiller – MOOC production 11.05 – 11.15 Lorna M. Campbell – International Open Science Conference report…
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“So what do you do?” can be a bit of a difficult question to answer when you work in the domain of learning technology. And depending on which area of learning technology you work in it can be a harder question to answer for some than others. My default answer tends to be “I work […]
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Well done to the 23 Things Team. Winners of the Credo Digital Literacy Award at Lilac Conference 2017!
Read moreRegistration is now open for the second UoE Open Knowledge Network event which will take place on Friday 28th April in Argyle House, University of Edinburgh. The event will feature a morning of talks and discussions with colleagues across the institution followed by hands on workshops and demonstrations in the afternoon. Programme 09.30 – 10.00 Coffee and networking 10.00 – 12.30 Presentations and discussions 12.30 – 13.30 Lunch 13.30 – 14.45 DataShare Workshop 15.00 – 16.30 Histropedia and Wiki Data workshop…
Read moreThe second UoE Open Knowledge Network event will take place on Friday 28th April in Argyle House. The event will feature lightning talks and discussions in the morning and workshops and demos in the afternoon. Further information and registration details will be available shortly. Watch this space!
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