Tag: bodleian
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The @bodleianlibs Comms Team Away Day at @NuffieldCollege provides yet another excuse to play with 360° photography.
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The Mystery Button-Box
Dan finds another bit of mystery hardware, and scares some head-scratcher photos.
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How To Set Up an OSRM Server on Ubuntu 14.04
How To Set Up an OSRM Server on Ubuntu 14.04 | DigitalOcean (DigitalOcean) The OpenStreetMap project consists of raw map data, collected and aggregated by thousands of users. This tutorial covers the configuration and maintenance of a web service using Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM), which is based on the OpenStreetMap d The OpenStreetMap project …
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Review of Tower of the Five Orders
This review of Tower of the Five Orders originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. Tower of the Five Orders, Oxford OX1 3BW, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This iconic Oxford landmark is named for the architectural characteristics of each of its five floors. Each exhibits a different order - or "style" - …
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When One Library Steals From Another
What happens when a university library completely rips-off the web design of a different university's library service?
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Off to #musetech17 (@ukmcg) at the @I_W_M, who also happen to be @3RingsCIC users... #wearingmanyhats
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"Jump Man" from Footprints Tours Oxford making people jump around outside the Bodleian Library
If you're a tourist on one of "Jump Man" of Footprints Tours' tours, I'm sure that the obligatory "jump for a photograph" moment at the end is a fun novelty. However, the novelty quickly wears off when you work in one of the library offices right next to their usual spot, and the call of … -
More than half of the 11M+ books at the University of Oxford's libraries aren't stored in reading rooms... they're in this high-tech warehouse! (more info in comments)
AltBodleian Book Storage Facility
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EEBO-TCP Hackathon
Last month, Dan attended the EEBO-TCP hackathon, and worked alongside humanities researchers to collaborate on software that extracted previously unexplored data out of 25,000 recently-digitised 15th-17th century texts.
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Squiz CMS Easter Eggs (or: why do I keep seeing Greg's name in my CAPTCHA?)
When using the Squiz CMS, Dan noticed that his CAPTCHA kept containing the same patterns of letters. These turned out to be the names of early developers on the system, which in turn lead Dan to uncover Easter Eggs in the software that have been deliberately concealed by their authors.
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1996 (!) website exhibiting postcards, catalogues, advertisements etc. showing different kinds of transport throughout the ages
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Club Lounge at Gatwick airport
On the way out to the French Alps for a week of skiing, and we had enough air miles to upgrade to business class on the way out, so I'm sat in the lounge enjoying complimentary gin & tonic and croissants. 10 in the morning, and I'm already buzzed: after a long and hectic … -
[HIRING]: Bodleian Libraries looking for a Wikimedian in Residence [x-post from /r/UKJobs]
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Seeing as you're all visiting my quirky little country, let me show you where I work.
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Found GLEM32TE Oxford Medical History #1: Medical mould
This checkin to GLEM32TE Oxford Medical History #1: Medical mould reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Despite having helped the CO to hunt for hiding spots, it still took me a while to retrieve this one as muggles kept passing by! Got there in the eve. TFTC!