Choosing a green hosting provider is a great way to improve your digital sustainability. But, as I’ve found out, this is only one part of the puzzle towards responsible digital ownership. Read more to understand the complexities behind a green hosting certification. With global data use is skyrocketing, so the push to decarbonise the […]
Read moreIf you are interested in helping users and people, we have an interesting summer internship for you which is about checking our services to make sure they are as accessible as they can be for all our users.
Read moreWe’ve collaborated with Little Forest to identify key metrics for their Web Sustainability Feature. Find out about how I navigated the nuances of the data to make the tool more precise and actionable for web publishers. When I first started my internship as a Green Web Estate Intern, it felt a bit like staring into […]
Read moreCongratulations to Eden Swimer, winner of the Staff Student Member of the Year Award at the 2024 ISG Staff Recognition Awards. Eden was employed by the OER Service in 2023 to help organise and run our Digital Collection Day as part of the University of…
Read moreAt the end of this month we’re saying goodbye to all four of our fabulous OER Service interns Mayu Ishimoto, […]
Read moreIn July 2023, I began working on Their Finest Hour, my internship, I was initially told, would last six months. Yet, I am now clocking off, one year later, after continuous exciting and rewarding work on the project. The last year has involved a huge v…
Read moreOver the last few months, I have been working on an Open Educational Resource (OER) based on Their Finest Hour and stories and objects collected during the Digital Collection Day in Edinburgh. The OER, Recording Everyday Social History, which is aimed …
Read moreOn the 6th June, the online archive for Their Finest Hour will be launched, after 73 Digital Collection Day events took place across the UK in 2023 and 2024, including the one that we ran at the University of Edinburgh on 25 November 2023,. Overall, Th…
Read moreLast week, I had the privilege to attend the OER24 conference at Munster Technological University, Cork. As an undergrad student and someone wishing to become an academic someday, joining a conference was thrilling and somewhat terrifying at the same t…
Read moreOn Saturday 25th November, Edinburgh University student and staff volunteers ran a successful digital archive event on Saturday as part of the University of Oxford’s Their Finest Hour project. Over 100 members of the public came to the event, and vo…
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