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https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/neilmulholland/2010/02/20/417-2/
Mash-ups have been common in turntable culture since the early days of hip-hop in the 1970s. Peer-to-peer filesharing combined with open source audio and video mixing software accelerated rise of mash-up culture from the late ‘ 90s, spawning a whole new generation of DJs and VJs. In computing, mashware can combine code from open source […]
Day 1 of Microsoft 365 Global Developers' Bootcamp: Getting Set Up with Teams, SharePoint and other Microsoft Accounts
Recently I had the great opportunity of attending the Microsoft 365 Global Developers’ Bootcamp. This consisted of two workshops, each going through a series of activities around a themed task, developing applications for use with Microsoft Teams, and using the Microsoft Graph API. The workshop for Day 1 was ‘Build an Emergency Response Solution with […]
Participants Information Sheet
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/valuesproject/2023/06/13/participants-information-sheet/
Participants Information Sheet (Version 7. 01.06.2023) Study Title: Values and Mental Health! You are being invited to take part in a research project on values, attachment, and their relationship with mental health. Please take time to read the following information carefully. For more information, please contact the lead researcher (Hamdullah Tunç: h.tunc@ed.ac.uk). What is the purpose of […]
The 70th Language Lunch
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/languagelunch/2019/12/12/the-70th-language-lunch/
The 70th Language Lunch Date: 2019-12-12 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum From Scan to csv – Digitising Historical Birth Record Data Mirjam Eiswirth; PPLS; s1322502@sms.ed.ac.uk Andreas Steinhauer; Economics; Andreas.Steinhauer@ed.ac.uk We have a wealth of historical data on births, deaths, and marriages from old parish records, but currently they are not available for large-scale digital analysis because […]
Career Paths in Renewables
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/careersinformed/career-paths-in-renewables/
Alison Parkinson, Employer Engagement Adviser and Deborah Fowlis, Careers Consultant, share some useful snippets from a recent “Career Paths in Renewables” session which was hosted by Equate Scotland. Scotland has become a world leader in sourcing its electricity from renewables. The Scottish Government’s Energy Strategy includes the target to meet 100% of Scotland’s own gross […]
Wellcome Trust Reimagine Research Dundee Townhall 12th February 2020 - Dr Natalie Homer
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/technicians/2020/03/09/wellcome-trust-reimagine-research-dundee-townhall/
The research sector is widely seen as producing great work. However, there are concerns about the culture that has developed to support it. Last year the Wellcome Trust released a report on Research Culture – https://wellcome.ac.uk/reports/what-researchers-think-about-research-culture. It contains the results of a literature review, interviews, workshops and a survey of over 4000 researchers. It describes […]
Week 11 - Charming Data Errors on Wikidata
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/witchcraft_visualisation/week-11-charming-data-errors-on-wikidata/
As the time left of my internship seems to be running away from me, I decided to use my time wisely by using this week to focus on quality assuring the Wikidata uploads. This process involved trying to work on many small tasks over the week to ensure that my Wikidata uploads are accurately displaying […]
Supporting Open Collections – Guest post by Wikisourceror intern, Erin Boyle
Figure 1: ‘Main Library Rainbow’, Stewart Lamb Cromar 2021 CC BY-SA, File:’Main Library Rainbow’ (2 3) (51239066072).jpg – Wikimedia Commons I am now at the end of week four of my role as a Wikisourceror – Open Collections intern, and the learning process has continued; albeit now I am a bit more familiar with the […]
The health & environmental impact of global health research
“How does one cross the Atlantic in an environmentally-friendly way?” I asked myself.* A few weeks earlier I had been challenged by a fellow student who had attended a university-run course “Carbon Conversations”. I then began to reflect on the health and environmental impact of my global health research and to consider ways in which […]
A Spring in our Step
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/generation-scotland/2021/03/05/spring/
Winter is in the past and Spring is nearly with us. The bulbs and leafing trees tell us so. There are reasons to feel a spring in our step. Pupils are heading back to school! The UK-wide rollout of the vaccine is going remarkably well. We have passed 20 million adults getting their first dose. […]
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