3. Edinburgh
Context
▷ Converged Service
▷ City Deal awarded 2018
▷ Data-driven innovation
focus
▷ Focus on data economy
▷ Focus on skills delivery
▷ Growth of interest in
digital scholarship
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7. Digital Making and Scholarship
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3-D modelling
3-D printing
Scanning – lidar etc
Visualisation
GIS/mapping
AR/VR
Digital exhibitions
Project planning
Experimentation
Collboration
Electronics –
arduino, rasberry
pi Model Making
Arts & crafts
Including fabrics
Text & Data
Mining
Encoding content
Computational
text analysis
Digital publishing
Developing Digital
Scholarship tools
10. uCreate
Makerspace
▷ Pilot project 2016/17
▷ Consumer grade equipment
▷ Multiple business cases
▷ Move from pilot to project
to service 2018/19
▷ Staffed 50 hours per week
▷ 2 staff and 9 student staff
▷ Students from all 21
schools participate
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11. Expansion in AR/VR
▷ University’s first holodeck!
▷ VR/AR systems acquired to
allow room scale use with
eye and full body tracking
▷ VR set loan kits
▷ Upgrades in scanning
including lidar
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13. uCreate Collection
Challenges
▷ Astrolabe – Reconstruct a
medieval astrolabe using modern
technologies.
▷ Book Mounts – Build a kit for
easily customisable book mounts.
▷ Digitising the Campus – Carry
out LIDAR scanning to build a
detailed record of the University
of Edinburgh campus.
▷ Fantasiescope – Construct a
replica fantasiescope and
develop templates for creating
custom animations. 13
15. Digital Scholarship Centre
▷ Opened in 2018
▷ Supporting researchers
▷ Training focused
▷ Collaborative – multi user groups
working together to offer a co-
herent digital scholarship offer
▷ Awareness
▷ Specialist – demand lead eg Library
Carpentries
▷ Engagment & Network
development eg TEI community
▷ Flipped online during pandemic 15
17. Vision for the Digital Library
Programme
▷ Ensuring ease of discovery and accessibility of collections
▷ Create a fresh and exciting website, responsive on all
devices, where you can discover our collections
▷ Providing an efficient and prompt digitisation request service
(now moving to Digitisation as a Service
▷ Provide a range of digital scholarship tools for our students and
academics
▷ Guaranteeing long term accessibility to collections
▷ Delivering digitised items as ‘collections as data’, as standard
▷ Growing digital capability/skills in our Digital Library Team
▷ Supporting growth of Digital Scholarship at Edinburgh by
collaborative working with the Digital Scholarship Team
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18. Programme Benefits
▷ Increase awareness and appreciation of University of Edinburgh collections so they may
be used to their fullest potential
▷ Increase the opportunities for engagement with digital collections in complex and
meaningful ways – ‘generous interfaces’, digital tools, and collections as data
▷ Provide technological support in conjunction with the subject matter expertise in CRC to
help employ digital content in ways that supports research and scholarship
▷ Provide instruction and access to digital scholarship services and techniques to students,
researchers, staff, and others interested in working with the University of Edinburgh
digital collections and other digital collections
▷ Increase the range of partnerships with peer institutions and other UoE divisions such as
Centre for Data, Culture & Society, contributing to a digital research/scholarship eco
system at University of Edinburgh
▷ Provide a sustainable infrastructure for the University of Edinburgh Collections
▷ Provide an infrastructure which supports efficient processes and ways of working 18
19. ‘Generous Interfaces’
Search, visualisations, data
analysis, processing,
browsing (DLIB007)
Digital
Scholarship
Tools + TDM
VRE
Noteable
Collections as
Data
(DLIB002a)
DAMs (DLIB005)
- Provides IIIF and
manages all content
types for dissemination
Museum
Catalogue -
Vernon
Archive
Catalogue -
ArchivesSpace
Digital Preservation Other
Remote Access to
Collections
Digitisation
Workflows –
Goobi (DLIB004)
Storage
Digital Library Programme
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20. Remote Access to Collections
On demand digitisation One-to-one consultation
Digitisation Workflows
Goobi DLIB004
DAMs
DLIB005
‘Generous Interfaces’
DLIB007
Remote Access to Collections
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Virtual Reading Room
22. Online Exhibitons
▷ Launched in 2021
▷ Widening access to collections
▷ Utilising IIIF
▷ Built on knowledge gained from working with
Google Arts and Culture
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23. EDINA
Digital
Imaging
Unit
Dev
Services
Archivists
Museums
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Collaboration – Projects and Library Activities
Project
Services
Tobar An
Dualchais
Special
Collections
Academic
Support
Librarians
Procurement
PGR / UG
Students
Collections
Services
Development
& Systems
LTW -
Web
Platform
Centre for
Data
Culture &
Society
CAHSS
Enterprise
Architecture
Dev
Services -
API
Standards