Digital Developments
Find out about the latest developments on our website, including new web tools, library systems developments and digitisation projects. Also, watch out for opportunities to give us feedback and take part in website user activities.
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Developing a player for the Wellcome Digital Library
Previous posts here have covered the digitisation of books and archives and the storage of the resulting files (mostly JPEG2000 images, but some video and audio too). Now it’s time to figure out how visitors to the Wellcome Library site… Continue reading
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Will more data lead to different histories being told?
New technology is making information more widely available and, when it launches later this year, the WDL will make it easier to access historical evidence about the foundations of modern genetics. Will this democratize our understanding of the history of… Continue reading
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Clearing copyright for books: preliminary ARROW results
As part of the genetics books project, we are tackling issues of copyright clearance and due diligence head on. Up to 90% of this collection is in copyright, or is likely to be in copyright, so developing a copyright clearance… Continue reading
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Learning lessons on the Genetics Books digitisation project
A key component of the theme of our digitisation pilot programme – “Foundations of Modern Genetics” – is a set of printed textbooks and secondary sources published between 1850 and 1990 that shed light on the development of genetic and… Continue reading
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Three Geneticists from the University of Glasgow
The Wellcome Digital Library isn’t just about collections held in the Wellcome Library. We are working with a number of other organisations that hold material on the history of modern genetics. One of the contributing partners, the University of Glasgow… Continue reading
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Wellcome Digital Library update
The Wellcome Digital Library pilot has been underway for 18 months with 6 months to go before we launch the new Library website. This will provide access to a wide range of digital content related to the Foundations of Genetics… Continue reading
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Online resource: Journal of the American Medical Association – all back issues now available
The Library is delighted to announce that we recently purchased access to the complete back files of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), right back to the first issue. Published continuously since July 1883, JAMA is an international,… Continue reading
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Filling the MOH Gaps
The Wellcome Library has a great collection of Medical Officer of Health (MOH) Reports. These reports are stuffed full of grim and useful information from the 19th and 20th century, such as statistics on infant mortality. JISC is, very wisely,… Continue reading
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Watson and Crick Letters
I’ve just had the privilege of reading a fantastic series of letters written in 1954 by James Watson and Francis Crick. They were written a year after they published their seminal article on the structure of DNA. In the letters… Continue reading
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The Medical Officer of Health reports project begins
I recently started working on the Medical Officer of Health digitisation project. Since the beginning of December 2011, I have been spending the majority of my time in the conservation studio. I have been carrying out disbinding, cleaning and rehousing… Continue reading