RunCoCo is working with Europeana.eu, an EU-funded portal to digital objects, images, text, sound and film on the Internet. Europeana are moving ahead with plans for user-generated-content and community collections.

• Initially, we will meet their developers to try to ‘brain-dump’ as much good practice from The Great War Archive and about the CoCoCo software for Europeana work which may be launched for the public to contribute to later in 2010;
• We are also working alongside institutions and projects from across Europe (including UKOLN) to write a proposal to Europeana [PDF of the call for proposals] for a digital storytelling project (2011-2012) to include an element of publicly contributed digitised content. Our suggestion is, of course, the First World War 1914-1918, but there are many themes being discussed;
  • This could lead on to working in a number of European countries as a test case to build on The Great War Archive. Oxford’s goal, which Europeana appear interested in, is to extend The Great War Archive across Europe in time for the 2014 anniversary.

If you are part of an education or public sector organisation in the EU and are interested in being involved in the user-generated-content proposal for 2011- please email runcoco@oucs.ox.ac.uk. We would also love to hear from anyone interested in being involved in a pan-European Great War Archive, or even a truly worldwide initiative to include all the countries involved in the First World War.