UofE Library Tech

We're recruiting! If you're a developer with an interest in archives (data and media), this could be the role for you: jobs.ac.uk/job/BYA121/digita…

Our own Hrafn Malmquist wrote an opinionated blog for the Digital Preservation Coalition. dpconline.org/blog/open-repo…

#OpenRepo2019 hearing about all the cool new features in DSpace 7 from Tim Donahue - highly customisable front-end using modern web frameworks, configurable entities with relationships in the metadata

The Mahabharata Scroll can be found at collections.ed.ac.uk/mahabha… . The IIIF Showcase and User Group is in Edinburgh week beginning 3 December- DM us if you’re interested in coming- there’ll be loads of interesting material!. #digidoc2018

Think we’re in the right session. Talking directly after great presentations about subjects close to our hearts: historical musical instrument re-creation and St Cecilia’s Hall acoustics! #digidoc2018

Links! Some of the things mentioned in our talk: rentonsa.github.io/about and Mahabharata scroll digitisation background video: youtube.com/watch?v=spYehakn… #iiif @iiif_io

Nice to see someone other than ourselves showing this picture! Thanks Drake. #iiif

Benefits of getting together at a conference- looks like @LunaImaging have the answer to our Mahabharata Scroll performance problem (all about the scaling factors on long, not wide, items!). Watch this space... #iiif

At #ahfap17- enjoyed speaking about scrolls and #iiif with @pettigrew_s. Now enjoying the afternoon programme!

First blogpost from Mike our new Digital Scholarship Developer on image preparation for OCR libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/lib…

Our latest collections site collections.ed.ac.uk/coimbra #IIIF #CG2017 built by one of our interns on top of Skylight and DSpace teapaw.org/CoimbraGroup/status/87…

Edinburgh's St Cecila's Hall collections (collections.ed.ac.uk/stcecil…) held up as example of #IIIF with @lunaimaging. lunaimaging.com/blog/2017/6/…

What should @EdUniLibraries digitise? tinyurl.com/n35vlok please complete our short survey.

There's an exciting new transcription tool about to launch round the corner at NLS! #cigsweb2