Projects

Find out more about some of the recent projects and initiatives which have used the Library’s open data collections.

Current/upcoming projects

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The National Librarian’s Research Fellowship in Digital Scholarship 2024-25
The National Library of Scotland Fellowship in Digital Research
The National Library of Scotland Fellowship in Digital Research 2025-26
Data Science for Design student projects 2024
Data Science for Design student projects 2024
Text and data mining platform
Text and data mining platform

Completed projects: 2023

The National Librarian's Research Fellowship in Digital Scholarship 2023-24
The National Librarian’s Research Fellowship in Digital Scholarship 2023-24

From LiDAR to computer games: Abertay University case study (coming soon)
From LiDAR to computer games: Abertay University case study
Representing Data: data visualisations from the University of Edinburgh (coming soon)
Representing Data: data visualisations from the University of Edinburgh (coming soon)
AI for the Arts and Humanities
AI for the Arts and Humanities
High Performance Computing meets Encyclopaedia Britannica
High Performance Computing meets Encyclopaedia Britannica

Completed projects: 2022

The National Librarian's Research Fellowship in Digital Scholarship 2021-22
The National Librarian’s Research Fellowship in Digital Scholarship 2021-22
The National Librarian's Research Fellowship in Digital Scholarship 2022-23
The National Librarian’s Research Fellowship in Digital Scholarship 2022-23
AI, cultural heritage and the National Library of Scotland
AI, cultural heritage and the National Library of Scotland
Recognising Ordnance Survey and paper map metadata with Transkribus
Recognising Ordnance Survey and paper map metadata with Transkribus
Visualising Scottish Broadsides
Visualising Scottish Broadsides

Completed projects: 2021

The National Librarian's Research Fellowship in Digital Scholarship 2020-21
The National Librarian’s Research Fellowship in Digital Scholarship 2020-21
Artist in Residence: Marion Carré
Artist in Residence: Marion Carré
Data visualisation student projects 2021
Data visualisation student projects 2021
Design with Data Student Show Spring 2021
Design with Data Student Show Spring 2021
Library as data (coming soon)
Library as data (coming soon)
Geoparsing the Gazetteers of Scotland
Geoparsing the Gazetteers of Scotland

Completed projects: 2020

Teaching digital humanities with A Medical History of British India
Teaching digital humanities with A Medical History of British India
Tracing Edinburgh's Boundaries
Tracing Edinburgh’s Boundaries
Mapping quarries and collieries
Mapping quarries and collieries
Finding lost footpaths using GB1900
Finding lost footpaths using GB1900

Artist in Residence: Martin Disley
Artist in Residence: Martin Disley
Data visualisation student projects 1010
Data visualisation student projects 2020
Exploring collections as data with Jupyter Notebooks
Exploring collections as data with Jupyter Notebooks

Completed projects: 2019

Data visualisation student projects 2019
Data visualisation student projects 2019
3,000 Scottish chapbooks...as music!
3,000 Scottish chapbooks…as music!