CRC: A Space Odyssey – Day in the Life of a Collections Management Technician
My name is Jasmine, and I’ve been working here at the University for five and a bit months as the …Continue reading →
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Appraisal Made Easy (If Only…): A Day in the Life of an Appraisal Archivist
Welcome to our Day in the Life Series, where each of our new team members will give you an insight …Continue reading →
Read moreStarting the Open Content Curator Internship!
Hello! I am Mayu, one of two Open Content Curator Interns working for the OER Service at the University of […]
Read moreReading up about… Wikipedia
The Solace of Oblivion Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 29 September 2014. Really interesting article. Toobin addresses a decision by the European Court of Justice that prohibits Google from linking to certain stories and highlights the distressing Catsouras case as a worthy discussion point: “There is an inevitable conflict between two distinct social values”–privacy and […]
Read moreOER23 Conference: Imagining hopeful futures
I’m a bit late with this OER23 reflection, it’s taken me a couple of weeks to catch up with myself and to let some of the ideas generated by the conference percolate. It was fabulous to see the OER Conference returning to Scotland for the fist time since we hosted it at the University of […]
Read moreDocumenting I.C.28
Last summer, I spent five days photographing the skeleton of William Burke to document recent conservation as a record for …Continue reading →
Read moreBetter late than never! 2022 end of year round up.
Is February too late (or early??) to write an end of year round up post? People often complain about January dragging but I swear it passed in the blink of an eye this year, and somehow we’re already half way through February. This is way, way, after the fact, but there are a few things […]
Read moreOEG Voices Podcast
This post originally appeared on the Open.Ed blog. Back at the beginning of the summer, my colleague Charlie and I had the very great pleasure of joining Alan Levine for an OEG Voices podcast to talk about the University of Edinburgh’s award winning open policies and GeoScience Outreach OERs. Charlie talked about the GeoScience Outreach course […]
Read moreOEG Voices Podcast
This post originally appeared on the Open.Ed blog. Back at the beginning of the summer, my colleague Charlie and I had the very great pleasure of joining Alan Levine for an OEG Voices podcast to talk about the University of Edinburgh’s award winning open policies and GeoScience Outreach OERs. Charlie talked about the GeoScience Outreach course […]
Read moreEnd of Open Content Internship
One of the aspects that had initially attracted me to the role was the importance of openly licensed, accessible resources […]
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