Happy Birthday Wikipedia! Read more about Wikipedia’s 25 year history, covering its early days with a ‘then and now'(and what lies ahead), at the link below: https://wikipedia25.org/en At 25 years old it may be the olddddd man of the old Internet but Wikipedia still remains the largest reference work on the Internet and is now a […]

This post is the second written by LLB student Dervla Craig who has worked as our Information and Data Literacy intern this Summer researching and preparing a National Lottery Heritage Fund bid to preserve, and raise public engagement with, the accused witches of Scotland as an important part of Scotland’s heritage. As I sit to […]

Launched during Global Goals Week in September, ‘SDGs: Stories of impact’ is an exploratory publication from University and tells stories of some of the University’s meaningful contributions to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) over the past five years.

Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia The fourth year of the Edinburgh Award for Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia concluded on 31st March 2025. Seven students (and one staff volunteer) completed this extracurricular digital research project amassing both the requisite 55-80 hours of volunteering time AND the significant & demonstrable impact in improving the topic coverage of their […]

This post was written by LLB student Dervla Craig on her first month as Information and Data Literacy intern this Summer. My name is Dervla and I am going into my second year of the Graduate LLB at the University of Edinburgh. This summer I am doing a 12-week internship with the University’s Information Services […]

On 30 October 2024 Professor Simon Bell, who was awarded his personal chair in Landscape and Wellbeing in 2023, gave […]

An open licensed seminar from the 2024 Controversies in the Data Society Seminar Series.  Eddie Ungless,  PhD candidate in the […]

With many image and media applications now integrating AI tools, it’s easier than ever to generate all kinds of eye-catching […]

I always enjoy a good dig around our digitised collections for different celebrations and days as there’s always something new […]

During LGBT+ History Month 2021, Edinburgh University LGBT+ Medics, Edinburgh BioQuarter LGBT+ Staff Committee and The University of Edinburgh Staff […]