New Metadata and Digital Content Licensing Policy Post by Gill Hamilton, Digital Access Manager, National Library of Scotland The National Library of Scotland is working on procedures and guidance to support a new and developing Metadata and Digital Content Licensing policy. As part of this work the Library has released collection metadata associated with the First World War Official Photographs under a CC0 license more »
Scotland’s Open Data
I recently spent a couple of hours throwing together a list of resources about open data for an informal tutorial targeted at undergraduate students involved in the Smart Data Hack. Part of my input was a list of Scottish public data and vocabularies compiled in 2010 by Peter Winstanley. Since then, I’ve been wondering about more »
Our week of (mostly) open data
Smart Data Hack In the week running up to International Open Data Day, we held the second incarnation of the Smart Data Hack at Edinburgh’s School of Informatics. It is, in essence, a 5-day hackathon for students, focussing on datasets that are locally relevant. The luxury of devoting a whole week to the event was more »
Art of the New Open
Galleries and museums have plenty of experience in acquiring, curating, exhibiting and preserving arts of work, at least when they are good old tangible objects — oil on canvas, crayon on paper, statues in bronze or stone. But what about digital art and video? For the new generation of artists that are at home in more »
Act locally, connect globally!
Looking back over the last year, OKF Scotland has really started to flourish. The Edinburgh meetups have brought together an impressive variety of people from many groups and institutions, and new connections keep on appearing. Even better, they are a huge amount of fun! The recent inaugural OKF meetup in Glasgow was an opportunity to more »