Finally after months of scoring procurement questions, analysing costs and negotiation I am pleased to announce that we will be providing open digital badges via Canvas Credentials (formally called Badgr).This is the start of a 3 year pilot to understand the value of digital badges for all stakeholders. Obviously for the earners aka the people […]

Our ‘Colouring Book Designer Intern’ post, and many others, are now open for student applications. Come join our University of Edinburgh (UoE) team this summer!

Our colouring books ‘We have great stuff’ volumes one and two are now available on Edinburgh Diamond, the University of Edinburgh Library’s digital service for hosting Diamond open source books and journals.

With my various discussions with learning techs and IT staff across the University, I’m aware that there is some confusion about data retention across our services so I wanted to provide a place that summarised where we currently are. I’ll try to reasonably regularly provide an update to keep everyone …

Reading Time: 4 minutesMy first blog was due to happen soon, so I might as well start with something I love My friends ask me why I don’t start documenting my food experiments and restaurant visits in a food blog (they are probably tired of me steering all conversations towards food and consider it would be more worthwhile […]

Digital badges are back! They never went away I hear you say and yes? Of course not but we did enter an odd phase were badges were being issued for anything or everything (I like to refer to this era as the ‘Oprah Winfrey’ era). So we all got badges and the value of a […]

Hi all, that’s week 8 of the internship completed! Had some time off for holidays so not had the full time to work on witchy data but back at it now. By now we are finishing off our processing stage and doing the last bits of data wrangling. Recently we have been doing a LOT […]

Hi, my name is Josep Garcia-Reyero and I am the Open-Source Development intern for the summer, which means I get to help re-develop the Mapping of Accused Witches of Scotland site – welcome to my first blog post! I am a Mathematics student at the University of Edinburgh, going into my fourth year of study […]

Over 100,000 people on YouTube have watched our openly licensed training videos that aim to prevent mastitis in smallholder dairy cattle.

So we are at the end of week 6, almost half of the way through the internship, and time seems to have flown by. These past weeks I have been put to work with data processing, and bulk editing Wikidata with all sorts of information extracted from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft database. What we […]