Data Management for Bioimaging – No-Cost, Easy-Access Tools for Edinburgh
This is a guest blog from Dr Ann Wheeler, Head of the Institute of Genetics and Cancer Advanced Imaging Resource …Continue reading →
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DataShare Spotlight: The Hiberlink project, and anticipating change in a data repository
While looking through DataShare for datasets about research practice, I found the Hiberlink project dataset [1], which perfectly illustrates some …Continue reading →
Read more25 Years of Ed Tech: E-Learning Standards
When Clint Lalonde came up with the crazy and wonderful idea of recording a serialised audio version of Martin Weller’s 25 years of Ed Tech book and asked if I was interested in getting involved, I knew right away which chapter I wanted to read. And I also knew it was one of the chapters […]
Read moreOn the importance of attribution in metadata
Anyone who has ever worked in developing or implementing metadata specifications will know that they’re not exactly a bundle of laughs, so metadata jokes are a rare and precious thing (cf Winston Jingo and Patrice Roux-the-Day.) So when I came across this image in 2016, I had to retweet it for the poor souls who […]
Read moreAda Lovelace Day Highlights
This week we celebrated Ada Lovelace Day at the University of Edinburgh with a fabulously eclectic and fun range of activities and a Wikipedia Editathon to enhance to coverage of women in STEM. Here’s a few few highlights from the day 🙂 I got to meet the real live Lego Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage <3 Thank […]
Read morethings can only get beta
Back in the days of Web 2.0 we used to describe things as ‘perpetualy beta‘. For me this perfectly describes Wikipedia. It’ll never be finished: we must add to, and improve it, early and often. Users are co-developers and it’s developed under open source principles of collective intelligence. Wikipedia/Wikimedia are Thing 10 in our ‘23 …
Read moreMANTRA – Digital Data
MANTRA is a free, online non-assessed course with guidelines to help you understand and reflect on how to manage the […]
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