Bess of Hardwick's Letters

Bess of Hardwick's Letters brings together, for the first time, the remarkable letters written to and from Bess of Hardwick (c.1521/2 or 1527-1608), one of Elizabethan England's most famous figures. Find out more

James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) was a major figure in 19th century printmaking and created 490 etchings. Over 9500 impressions of these prints have been located and investigated during the project, which completes a series of catalogues raisonnés of Whistler's oeuvre. Find out more

Interactive Map of Burns Suppers Worldwide

Featuring more than 1000 Burns Suppers across all 7 continents and in 75 countries around the world, this resource seeks to record, illustrate, and offer new insights into the ways in which the tradition of the Burns Supper continues to be maintained, adapted and reimagined in the 21^st century. Find out more

Consultation Letters of Dr William Cullen (1710-1790) at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

A publicly accessible, online scholarly edition of one of the most important archives of eighteenth-century medical "consultation letters", containing more than 20,000 digitised pages. Find out more

Andy Goldsworthy Digital Catalogue

The Digital Catalogue documents, visually and textually, the first ten years of Andy Goldsworthy's ephemeral, outdoor practice. It replicates Goldsworthy's Slide Cabinet Index, and includes previously unpublished material from Goldsworthy's Sketchbook Diaries. Find out more

Curious Travellers

The project explores Romantic-period accounts of journeys into Wales and Scotland with a focus on the writings of the Flintshire naturalist and antiquarian Thomas Pennant (1726-1798), whose published Tours of both countries did so much to awaken public interest in the ‘peripheries’ of Britain. Find out more

Scots Syntax Atlas

The Scots Syntax Atlas presents the results of over 100,000+ acceptability judgments from over 500 speakers on over 250 morphosyntactic phenomena. The Atlas also contains a text-to-sound aligned corpus of spoken data totalling 275 hours and over 3 million words. Find out more

People of Medieval Scotland 1093-1371

A database of all known people of Scotland between 1093 and 1314 mentioned in over 8600 contemporary documents. It is also being extended to 1371 to include all those lands, peoples and relationships mentioned in royal charters between 1314 and 1371. Find out more

TheGlasgowStory

As told by some of Scotland's best writers, and illustrated with thousands of images from the collections of the city's world-famous libraries, museums and universities. From football to fashions, Auchenshuggle to Yoker, you'll find it all here. Find out more

SCOTS: Scottish Corpus Of Texts and Speech

The Scottish Corpora project has created large electronic corpora of written and spoken texts for the languages of Scotland, featuring nearly 4.6 million words of text, with audio recordings to accompany many of the spoken texts. Find out more

Week Beginning 10th April 2023

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I was off last week for Easter and was only working two days this week. I regenerated the Solr data for the Books and Borrowing project ahead of a demonstration of the front-end in Liverpool at the end of the week. I wasn’t at this event but apparently the demonstration went very well. I also tracked down and processed missing images for three library registers from Glasgow that had somehow not been incorporated into the system and I spent some time going through the site and making tweaks and fixes. These included adding a link to borrowers page from dev site homepage and adding a ‘download full image’ option when viewing a register page, which opens the full image in a new browser tab and from there you can save it. I also fixed an issue with book item part number ordering – previously the volumes were ordered messily and now they are in numeric order wherever volumes are listed. I also removed author years of birth and death from the ‘simple’ advanced search, as requested, and added in borrower forename and surnames to the ‘simple’ advanced search, as requested. I also fixed the search results sort by date not working. This was caused by a bug that took a while to track down. All of the search results ordering options should now be working. I then fixed an issue with empty tabs appearing in borrower list alphabetical tabs. This was being caused by new borrowers being added since generating cached data. I’ve fixed the issue now so the empty tab should no longer appear. I also managed to fix the bar chart legend being cut off the bottom of the visualisations on the ‘libraries’ and ‘library intro’ pages and updated the colours used in the bar chart to differentiate them a bit better. I also fixed the date filter in the search results so it no longer displays the bar chart or ‘view decade’ button if a single year is searched for. It was doing so previously and then pressing on the options broke things. Finally, I fixed an issue with the apostrophe in the occupation “Advocate’s Clerk” breaking the search. I also spent some time preparing a demonstration of the site that I’ll be giving at the project’s conference in Stirling next week.

Other than Books and Borrowing work, I spent some time dealing with the migration of WordPress sites to external hosting and ensuring they were working.