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Decoding Tacit Knowledge with SECI

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/macat/openlearninghandbook/sprint3/seci/

Codification How do we teach tacit forms of knowledge? See: Polanyi, M. (1966). The Tacit Dimension. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday To acquire tacit knowledge we generally learn experientially by copying someone who already has mastered the practice that we wish to master. This is why so many ‘skills-based’ professions are learned on-the-job through master/apprenticeship models […]


Social Enterprise

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/iad4phd/2013/10/23/social-enterprise/

This guest blog is brought to you by Janet Wilkinson from Three Times Three Consulting – http://threetimesthree.co.uk/ A social enterprise is the type of organisation that you’ll recognise as having existed for as long as community based businesses have been around.  In my experience it is only within the last 5-10 years that the term has […]


Using Marine Roam to find interesting things beyond topography

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/digimap/2013/03/27/using-marine-roam-to-find-interesting-things-beyond-topography/

Marine Roam is a fantastic service which provides access to SeaZone HydroSpatial data for the waters around Great Britain.  There are many applications for the data and the expanding offshore renewables sector, and associated research around it, immediately springs to mind.  However, did you know that you can use Marine Roam for some historical sleuthing? […]


Scottish Student Sport go plogging!

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sustainability/2020/scottish-student-sport-go-plogging/

For their 2019 gold project, Scottish Student Sport encouraged their staff team to choose sustainable travel alternatives where possible, and created a series of sociable activities boosting both health and wellbeing… including ‘plogging’! ​The Scottish Student Sport team practised walking meetings around campus, and used active travel methods such as like walking, cycling and running to commute to […]


【BAYES COFFEE HOUSE TECH TALK SERIES】On Learning Latent Models with Multi-Instance Weak Supervision

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/he-lab/2023/11/16/%e3%80%90bayes-coffee-house-tech-talk-series%e3%80%91on-learning-latent-models-with-multi-instance-weak-supervision/

Efi Tsamoura will give a talk, in person and online, for the Coffee House Tech Talk Series. Details of the talk as below, lunch will be provided.   Title: On Learning Latent Models with Multi-Instance Weak Supervision. Speaker: Efi Tsamoura, Samsung AI When: 12nn Thu 23 Nov Where: 4th floor Bayes Centre External link: https://meeting.huaweicloud.com/welink/j/94584057/Y636nF2lqRtlVZvXQdnkLmpJ34TfuNv7U […]


Audio Visualisation

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/opentoolkits/?p=309

BACKGROUND INFORMATION IN VIDEO (2min) INSTRUCTIONS (15min)   1. CHOOSE OBJECT (2 min) Choose an object that interests you and that has a distinct sound associated with it. It could be anything from nature, machinery, musical instruments, or everyday objects.   2. TAKE PHOTO (1 min) Take a clear and focused photograph of the chosen […]


Coffee

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/craftingmagic/tools/coffee/

  ‘To prepare, a mage cut red beans and carried them back home where she scraped off the outer shell with a knife. With the back of the knife, she then scraped the beans, and allowed their dust to fall in a cloth placed over her lap. She then made a drying rack by splitting […]


Discussion Group 6 May on The Limits of Authenticity: Remaking with Hazardous Materials

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/renaissance_goo/2022/04/30/remaking-with-hazardous-materials/

  One cliché about Renaissance make up is that it was generally made of materials that were either poisonous (eg mercury, lead, arsenic) or unpalatable (eg bird droppings, human urine, bats’ blood). This fed into a wide range of artistic and literary tropes that linked beauty to vanity and to death, as in George de […]


SIGN-UP: Edinburgh Digital Collection Day

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/theirfinesthour/2023/09/21/edinburgh-digital-collection-day/

Do you have any Second World War related stories and objects passed down to you from your parents, grandparents and other family members? Would you like to digitally preserve these stories and objects before they are lost to history? Bring your diaries, letters, photos, memories, objects* or stories about your family’s wartime experience to our Digital […]


Week 7 Exhibition in Scotland

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s2478202_curating-2023-2024sem2/2024/03/14/week-7-site-visit/

Scotland national museum Edinburgh will host the return of Game On, the largest interactive exhibition dedicated to the history and culture of video games. The exhibition, which takes place at the National Museum of Scotland from June 29 to November 3, 2024, features well-known figures and video games from Space Invaders to Sonic the Hedgehog […]


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