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In the Hot Seat - Lori

Who is the mind behind the academic mastery? Join us as we put Dr Watson, a.k.a Lori in the Hot Seat to discover what drives her passion for music, and how she began her journey into teaching…

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Songs and music celebrate St Andrew’s Day

Musicians and artists have filmed a special concert to mark St Andrew’s Day amid Covid restrictions.The gathering of musicians, poets and singers at the University’s St Cecilia’s…

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LLC graduation 2020 - full edit - FINAL

A video from colleagues across the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) for our graduating students to say how proud we are of your achievements and to send you our very best…

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Finding material from The School of Scottish Studies Archive Online

As part of International Archives Week, Louise Scollay, Library & Archive Assistant, has a very quick guide showing you how to use Tobar an Dualchais / Kist o Riches website to find material from…

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Meet our Traditional Artist in Residence

We chat to Mike Vass about coming of age in Edinburgh’s traditional music session scene and his current role searching for treasures in the School of Scottish Studies Archives.

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An inviting and welcoming community

We talk to PhD Celtic Studies student Dhanya Baird about her involvement in Celtic studies conferences and why the department is so special to her.

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Welsh Wikipedia Thinking Big - Keynote address by Jason Evans at the Celtic Knot 2017 conference

Celtic Knot 2017 keynote presentation - Jason Evans (Wikimedian in Residence at the National Library of Wales) Welsh Wicipedia – Thinking big Jason Evans will discuss his strategy for…

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Celtic Knot 2017 Conference Opening - Robin Owain (Wales Manager for Wikimedia UK)

Conference Opening - Robin Owain (Wales Manager for Wikimedia UK) A glimpse into some of the milestones in the development of Wicipedia Cymraeg, starting with Marc Haynes residence at the Coleg…

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Celtic Knot: Wikipedia Language Conference 2017 - Welcome from Melissa Highton, Assistant Principal for Online Learning

The Celtic Knot Conference 2017 was the first Wikipedia Language conference organised in collaboration between the University of Edinburgh and Wikimedia UK focusing on supporting Celtic &…

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Translating articles between different language Wikipedias: the new Content Translation tool

Title: Translating articles between different language Wikipedias: the new Content Translation toolDate: 6 July 2017Speakers: Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh.…

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Celtic Knot 2017 - Panel discussion & closing plenary: The Politics of Language Online

Title: The Politics of Language Online - Plenary Panel Date: 6 July 2017Chair: Lorna Campbell, OER Liaison - Open Scotland, Learning, Teaching and Web Services Division at the University of…

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The Digital Library in Romansh - Ilario Valdelli (Wikimedia Switzerland) at the Celtic Knot 2017

Title: The Digital Library in Romansh.Date: 6 July 2017Speakers: Ilario Valdelli from the staff of Wikimedia Switzerland. In Switzerland we work a lot with Rhaeto-Romance languages (spoken in…

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The Kefalonian Dialect in Wiktionary and how Wikitherapy addresses social equality in open-source language projects - Mina Theofilatou

The Kefalonian Dialect in Wiktionary and how Wikitherapy addresses social equality in open-source language projects Mina Theofilatou, Greek Wikipedia. Overview of topic: Kefalonia is an island in…

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The Scottish Gaelic Uicipeid project - Susan Ross at the Celtic Knot 2017

The Scottish Gaelic Uicipeid project: a talk discussing the role of the Gaelic Wikipedian at the National Library of Scotland and the success/failures of encouraging Gaelic speakers to make the…

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Developing the Basque Wikipedia: From corpus expansion to outreach - Iñaki Lopez de Luzuriaga

2016 was a critical year for the Basque Wikipedia, a project surging in 2007 that reached an activity peak last year by establishing the Basque Wikimedians User Group, benefiting from its…

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A state of the question - the Catalan language project - Àlex Hinojo, Executive Director, Amical Wikimedia

Sharing our model on how we do things to promote the Catalan language project and why we do it and how we engage with language activists and also which are our challenges. Did you know that…

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