The carbon cost of using images and videos on a webpage often goes unnoticed but cumulatively can add up. Dono Abdurahmanova and I have presented at both the UCISA digital sustainability conference and the Green Software Foundation Scotland meet up in the last week or so on the topic of sustainable media use. The key […]

When I made my (rather optimistic) post this time last year, I didn’t realise that my cataracts were accelerating, with a corresponding decline in my sight which slowed me down considerably. However, in the autumn I had surgery, with the result that I could see very clearly (at least in the literal sense), and I […]

In this blog post, Digital Accessibility Intern David Buik explains what accessibility statements are, what goes into making them, as well as things he has learned from experience in this domain. He also talks about a tool he has started developing to make the process more beginner-friendly and efficient.

By Ian, from China, studying PhD Biological Sciences I have lived next to Bruntsfield for three years now, so it has become one of the Edinburgh neighbourhoods I know best. I often pass through Bruntsfield Links between the central campus area and home: a calmer, greener change of pace after a busy library day.  My ideal Bruntsfield afternoon is simple: walk through the Meadows, stop on Bruntsfield Place, browse […]

Over the course of the first three decades of the 20th century, armed with recording equipment, Marjory Kennedy Fraser visited hundreds of individuals acorss the Western Isles and captured their song on wax cylinders.  Digital copies of nearly 300 of these cylinders are now available via our catalogue, allowing scholars, enthusiasts and others to hear […]

17th Conference of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) Galway, Éire Thursday, 25 June — 9:30am Workshop 📍 HBB-G001 https://sar2026.ie/joots-suite ‘… at the core of a magic performance is interaction: it cannot be performed alone.’ (Nardi 1984, 26) Situated rites are based on an awareness of the interrelatedness of everything; they operate in specifically defined fields […]