{"id":2500,"date":"2019-09-24T18:19:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T18:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2019-09-25T15:24:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T15:24:43","slug":"scottish-witches-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2019\/09\/24\/scottish-witches-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Witches data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/witches.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2503\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/witches-300x157.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/witches-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/witches-768x401.png 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/witches-1024x535.png 1024w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/09\/witches.png 1609w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We are getting a fair bit of media coverage about our witches data project <a href=\"https:\/\/witches.is.ed.ac.uk\/\">https:\/\/witches.is.ed.ac.uk\/<\/a>. You&#8217;ll remember that at the start of the summer we advertised for a <a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2019\/02\/20\/witchfinder\/\">&#8216;witchfinder general&#8217; intern<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The project is now complete and the work done by our Wikimedian in Residence, Ewan alongside our Witches GIS Data Intern, Emma is properly impressive.\u00a0 It offers whole new ways of engaging with this historical data collection.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about it here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk\/news\/wicked-findings-witchfinder-general\">https:\/\/www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk\/news\/wicked-findings-witchfinder-general<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ed.ac.uk\/ecarroll3_witchcraft_visualisation\/\">https:\/\/blogs.ed.ac.uk\/ecarroll3_witchcraft_visualisation\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ammienoot.com\/brain-fluff\/some-witchy-history-and-a-very-smart-woman-in-data-science\/\">https:\/\/ammienoot.com\/brain-fluff\/some-witchy-history-and-a-very-smart-woman-in-data-science\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Emma presented her work at the recent ALT conference , to an audience of interested learning technologists. We&#8217;ll be speaking about it again on Saturday at<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> a series of lectures on why open source is the future: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/edin.ac\/open-edi-talks\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"https:\/\/edin.ac\/open-edi-talks\"><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-hiw28u r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" aria-hidden=\"true\">https:\/\/<\/span>edin.ac\/open-edi-talks<\/span><\/a><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> (EASE login required) and at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/gendered-2nd-anniversary-showcase-tickets-73933933385\">genderED annual interdisciplinary showcase 21 October<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Media: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/heritage\/map-of-scots-women-accused-of-witchcraft-published-for-first-time-1-5009814\">https:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/heritage\/map-of-scots-women-accused-of-witchcraft-published-for-first-time-1-5009814<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are getting a fair bit of media coverage about our witches data project https:\/\/witches.is.ed.ac.uk\/. You&#8217;ll remember that at the start of the summer we advertised for a &#8216;witchfinder general&#8217; intern. The project is now complete and the work done by our Wikimedian in Residence, Ewan alongside our Witches GIS Data Intern, Emma is properly &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-teaching-and-web-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions\/2511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}