Open Unwrapped – a robin’s birdcall
The 6th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is the song of a European Robin, or Robin Red Breast, from The British Library, and shared in the Europeana collection.
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Open Unwrapped – Callanish Stones
The 5th of our ‘Twelve days of Open’ is an image of the Callanish Stones on the west coast of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Taken by our very own Lorna Campbell and uploaded to Wikipedia as part of the Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 event.
Read moreOpen Unwrapped – WikiBooks Christmas Recipes
Our 2nd ‘Twelve days of Open’ unwraps WikiBooks Christmas Recipes! Wikibooks one of the Wikimedia sister projects, and is about collaboratively writing open-content textbooks that anyone […]
Read moreOpen Tumshies for Hallowe’en
My colleague Anne-Marie Scott has written a lovely blog post about an obscure 17th century map of Iceland that was released under open licence by the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Research Collections and found fame on the Commons thanks to Wikipedia, the Euro 2016 Football Championships and Creative Common’s State of the Commons Report. […]
Read moreThe Benefits of Open Education and OER
This is a transcript of a talk I gave as part of the Open Med Project webinar series. Benefits of Open Education and OER from Lorna Campbell What is open education? Open education is many things to many people and there’s no one hard and fast definition. A practice? A philosophy? A movement? A licensing […]
Read moreWiki Loves Monuments – An amazing contribution to the commons
The Wiki Loves Monuments competition came to a close last Friday and I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that I was still uploading ancient holiday snaps at quarter to midnight. Who knew I had so many pics of ancient ruins?! By the time the competition closed, a staggering 14,359 new images of UK scheduled […]
Read moreA new lease of life for your holiday snaps
I’ve been spending most of my evenings this week looking through photographs on old laptops, not because I’ve been overtaken by a fit of nostalgia, the reason I’m trawling through old holiday snaps is that I’m looking out pictures to submit to this year’s Wiki Loves Monuments competition. And as a former archaeologist, monuments feature […]
Read moreEvent 3 – Themes and Recommendations
The third Open Knowledge Network event in early July 2017, focused on discussing topics put forward by participants and exploring ways forward for the Network. The following topics were discussed – open data sets, data literacy, building a network of open practitioners. Open Data Sets This discussion focused on raising the profile of open data, identifying university data sets that could potentially be opened, encouraging data owners to share their data, collecting usecases around how open data sets might be used in order…
Read moreStudent Engagement with OER at University of Edinburgh
Earlier this week Christina Hendricks at UBC put out a call for examples of student engagement with open education and OER. I was going to reply in comments but as we have lots of great examples of students getting involved with OER at the University of Edinburgh I thought I’d write a short post here. […]
Read moreMary Susan McIntosh and the Women in Red
I was chuffed to discover today that English Wikipedia’s main page features a link to sociologist, feminist, and campaigner for lesbian and gay rights Mary Susan McIntosh. It’s always great to see women featured on Wikipedia’s main page, which is viewed by around 4 million people, but I confess to being doubly pleased because I created the […]
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