• Virtual Mitchell
  Photographs from Archives and Special Collections in the Mitchell Library. Searchable by area, street, and subject, or all photographs can be browsed.
  with glam image-galleries
• Visit the Arctic vault holding back-ups of great works
  "Customers pay to have their data stored on film and kept in the vault, for potentially hundreds of years."
  with computers-and-it
• Visual sound : Mysteries of the human voice revealed by Megan Watts Hughes
  "From 1885, Megan began to visualise her voice. She created a scientific instrument, the eidophone, which she would sing into; it would capture an image of the sound using sand and powders."
  with miscellany
• Visual Vocabulary : Designing with data
  "...decide which data relationship is most important in your story, then look at the different types of chart within the category to form some initial ideas about what might work best."
  with data-visualisation
• Visuwords
  "Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate."
  Visuwords Dictionary and Thesaurus - Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. This is my latest project still in development. More to follow shortly.
  adjective adverb american antonym australian british definition dictionary english lang noun synonym thesaurus verb visual word
  with cataloguing-and-metadata language-and-literature
• Vivian Maier
  with image-galleries photography
• Vocabulary Management at the Department for Education
  "...a fascinating case study of a project [...] that takes us back to the essential basics of information retrieval, of nomenclature and thesauri."
  with cataloguing-and-metadata
• Voluntary National Insurance
  Check for gaps in NI contributions
  with finance
• VRA CORE : A data standard for the description of works of visual culture
  "The VRA Core is a data standard for the description of works of visual culture as well as the images that document them."
  with cataloguing-and-metadata photography
• W. & R. Chambers collection
  "Discover how Scottish publishers W. & R. Chambers pioneered the use of images as learning tools in their encyclopaedias, and how these pictures changed with the times as illustration styles and printing techniques evolved and world views changed."
  with printing-and-publishing
• Waterfront Edinburgh : Madelvic Car Factory
  with buildings-and-architecture edinburgh electric-vehicles
• Waverley Steps
  "Waverley Steps [...] is an evocative minor classic. John Eldridge’s film takes the semi-documentary form of a collage of scripted vignettes, at first disconnected but gradually overlapping." Free to view on website.
  with edinburgh
• Weird British Road Names
  with humour
• What AI thinks artificial intelligence means for libraries
  "This week our guest blogger is ChatGPT AI. We asked it ‘what will be the impact of AI on libraries?’"
  with library-management
• What font should I use? : Five principles for choosing and using typefaces
  Smashing Magazine, December 2010
  with typography
• What is a “blockchain”?
  with computers-and-it
• What is color space? Should I use sRGB or AdobeRGB?
  with colour photography
• What is crypto mining, and how does it work?
  with computers-and-it
• What is FRBR? : A conceptual model for the bibliographic universe
  "...a brief overview of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) as developed by IFLA [which] outlines the background of the development of the Requirements, the concepts involved and their potential impact on cataloging rules, bibliographic structures and systems design for cataloging applications." (8pp, free PDF download)
  with professional-development
• What is my IP?
  "Find out what your IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are, along with detailed geolocation insights, including the associated country, city, and ISP."
  with computers-and-it

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