I valued the opportunity to hear from and speak with other Drupal enthusiasts from Scotland and beyond when the University hosted DrupalCamp Scotland, a one-day event on 25 October 2024 organised by the local Drupal Association. Drupal is an open-source content management system widely used at the University of Edinburgh. It is an open-source system […]
Read moreThanks to requests from staff and students in HCA, the Library has trial access to 4 digital primary source collections …Continue reading →
Read moreThanks to a request from staff in History, the Library currently has trial access to the newly launched extension years …Continue reading →
Read moreI know it’s a crowded field, but I came across an AI / open data development recently that really made me stop and take a breath. The Living Museum introduces itself as follows: If the artifacts in museums could talk, what would you say to them? Would you ask about their origins, or what life […]
Read moreEarlier this week, Emma Horrell, User Experience Manager, and I travelled to Cambridge to attend the annual Digital Leaders meeting, hosted at the University of Cambridge. Janus Boye has been organising and facilitating similar meetings for several years, and there were some very interesting discussions related to leading and managing digital services and products. My […]
Read moreI’ve been dipping my toes back into the debate about open education and AI over the last few weeks. I stepped back from this space earlier in the year both for personal reasons and because I was getting a bit dispirited by the signal to noise ratio. It’s still a very noisy space, more so […]
Read moreEstimated reading time: 13 minutes Lego kindly invited me to build a Fabuland ship for the prestigious Lego House in Denmark. Going blind in one eye has been the hardest year and this creative challenge absolutely helped me move forward. Read about the ‘Maid of Fabuland’ paddle steamer and one of the happiest days ever.
Read moreMyEd is a key part of the student experience at the University of Edinburgh, particularly at the beginning of a new academic year. Our analytics data can help us understand what services and actions are important to students at this crucial time. How do students prepare for the new academic year? Securing accommodation is a […]
Read moreIn this post, Technician Robyn Rogers discusses her bespoke mounting and rehousing of loose-leaf papers from the University’s decorated paper …Continue reading →
Read moreEstimated reading time: 3 minutes To celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2024, I created two new colouring-in illustrations of notable Women in STEM – author and codebreaker Irene Jessie Brown, and geologist Charlotte Murchison. I also discuss AI enhancement tools and vision loss challenges associated with my design process.
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