Open Unwrapped – a robin’s birdcall
The 6th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is the song of a European Robin, or Robin Red Breast, from The British Library, and shared in the Europeana collection.
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Open Unwrapped – Callanish Stones
The 5th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is an image of the Callanish Stones on the west coast of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Taken by our very own Lorna Campbell and uploaded to Wikipedia as part of the Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 event.
Read moreOpen Unwrapped – Daffodils in George Square
Bringing some sunshine to this winter day, the 4th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is an Open Media Snippet of Daffodils in George square.
Read moreOpen Unwrapped – Percy Shelley’s ‘The serpent is shut out from paradise’.
The 3rd of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is the digital scan of the letters and manuscript of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘The serpent is shut out from paradise’. Addressed to Edward Williams, the poem is one of eleven Percy wrote for Jane Williams. In the note included with this manuscript Percy writes that Edward may read the poem to Jane “but to no one else”.
Read moreOpen Unwrapped – WikiBooks Christmas Recipes
Our 2nd ‘Twelve days of Open’ unwraps WikiBooks Christmas Recipes! Wikibooks one of the Wikimedia sister projects, and is about collaboratively writing open-content textbooks that anyone […]
Read moreOpen Unwrapped – Tripple-Fretted Clavichord
Welcome to our 12 days of #OpenUnwrapped on the Open.Ed blog! Over the next 12 days we’ll be sharing Open Educational Resources, items that have been openly licensed for re-mix, re-share, and re-use. Ranging from images, videos, sounds, artworks, tools, games, papers, and more.
Read moreOpenly licensed music & sound
Most of us are familiar with where to search on the web for openly licensed images and films, but one […]
Read moreOpen Unwrapped Dec 24th: Christmas Sermon from Robert Louis Stevenson
In ‘A Christmas Sermon’, a short public domain text available on Wikisource, Robert Louis Stevenson meditates on the holiday season, […]
Read moreOpen Unwrapped Dec 23rd : Christmas Cowboy
Celebrating Christmas 1904, this illustration from the Roslin Glass Slides collection shows an American cowboy riding a bucking bronco with […]
Read moreOpen Unwrapped Dec 22nd: Wikidata and Saint Nick
Navino Evans, co-founder of Histropedia (www.histropedia.com), co-presented a Wikidata Showcase at Repository Fringe at the University of Edinburgh on 2nd […]
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