Edinburgh Open Research Conference Proceedings
One of the ambitions for the EOR conference held in March, 2022, when we first started planning it was to …Continue reading →
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OER for Disability Pride Month
During Disability Pride Month, I chose to develop my own resource and chose to work with the AS and Neurodiversity […]
Read moreWeeks 7 and 8 – Hubble Bubble Spreadsheets and Trouble
Hi all, that’s week 8 of the internship completed! Had some time off for holidays so not had the full time to work on witchy data but back at it now. By now we are finishing off our processing stage and doing the last bits of data wrangling. Recently we have been doing a LOT […]
Read moreProcurement aka the crack in everything that lets the bullshit in
I’ve been thinking and writing and talking a lot about edtech procurement recently. In fact I’ve been thinking and writing and talking about it for years but it feels like in this moment it might just be getting a little more traction. It might of … Continue reading Procurement aka the crack in everything that lets the bullshit in
Read moreA midpoint reflection: OERs, EDI in tech, internship ideas
I was slightly alarmed when Charlie asked us to write a halfway point blog for the internship, because it still […]
Read moreOpen Content Intern for ISG: how can OERs help digital spaces?
Reading Time: 3 minutes This blog is cross-posted from the ISG Student Employee Blog. Programme of Study and Year: MA Fine Art, Year […]
Read moreOpen Content Internship – Halfway Point!
Hi! I’m writing as I am half-way through the Open Content Internship. It doesn’t feel like it’s been nearly six […]
Read moreWeeks 3 and 4: Site re-development is underway
Hi, my name is Josep Garcia-Reyero and I am the Open-Source Development intern for the summer, which means I get to help re-develop the Mapping of Accused Witches of Scotland site – welcome to my first blog post! I am a Mathematics student at the University of Edinburgh, going into my fourth year of study […]
Read moreYouTube loves our cows
Over 100,000 people on YouTube have watched our openly licensed training videos that aim to prevent mastitis in smallholder dairy cattle.
Read moreWeeks 5 and 6 – Some Data Processing Sorcery
So we are at the end of week 6, almost half of the way through the internship, and time seems to have flown by. These past weeks I have been put to work with data processing, and bulk editing Wikidata with all sorts of information extracted from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database. What we […]
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