{"id":533,"date":"2014-12-18T14:36:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T14:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=533"},"modified":"2014-12-18T17:02:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T17:02:21","slug":"advent-of-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2014\/12\/18\/advent-of-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"advent of technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-531\" style=\"width: 287px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/12\/0103511c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-531\" src=\"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/12\/0103511c-287x300.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Carle, Illustration of the farmer\/Father Christmas in &quot;Dream Snow&quot; ECA Library Image Collection http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\/luna\/servlet\/s\/yd2zm7\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/12\/0103511c-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/12\/0103511c-981x1024.jpg 981w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2014\/12\/0103511c.jpg 1472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Carle, Illustration of the farmer\/Father Christmas in &#8220;Dream Snow&#8221; ECA Library Image Collection http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\/luna\/servlet\/s\/yd2zm7<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In previous years I have enjoyed making Christmas collections of curated open images and artifacts along various &#8216;Open Advent&#8217; themes.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011 OUCS had its first &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.it.ox.ac.uk\/melissa\/2011\/11\/30\/openadvent\/\">Open Advent Calendar&#8217;<\/a>, followed in 2012 by the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.it.ox.ac.uk\/melissa\/2012\/12\/05\/one-door-opensleigh\/\">One-Horse-Open-Sleigh<\/a>&#8216; and in 2013 by &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.it.ox.ac.uk\/melissa\/2013\/11\/30\/online-presents\/\">Online Presents<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>This year to save me from tears, I am touting the &#8216;advent of technology&#8217; hashtag. (Not particularly successfully it has to be said).<\/p>\n<p>My best festive themes\u00a0 feature &#8216;raise a glass for our <a href=\"http:\/\/glass.ed.ac.uk\/\">Google Glass<\/a> project&#8217;, &#8216;choose your tools carefully with our Christmas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tree.is.ed.ac.uk\/\">TREE<\/a>&#8216; and &#8216;be careful of your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/schools-departments\/institute-academic-development\/about-us\/projects\/digital-footprint\">digital footprints<\/a> in the snow&#8217;.\u00a0 Jo gamely joined me with some sterling &#8216;elf sciences work.<\/p>\n<p>However, today being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/datablog\/ng-interactive\/2014\/dec\/18\/university-research-excellence-framework-2014-full-rankings\">REF <\/a>day, and Edinburgh having done rather well, I can point you to genuine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/schools-departments\/humanities-soc-sci\/research-ke\/research-excellence\/ref-results\">CHSS nuts boasting in an open flyer<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In previous years I have enjoyed making Christmas collections of curated open images and artifacts along various &#8216;Open Advent&#8217; themes. 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