In February we have…
- worked with Oxford University Web Design Consultancy to create our new project website
- our detailed project plan and work-package plans have been accepted by the JISC programme manager and our University of Oxford department management, and you can read them on our project website
- advertised to recruit a project officer
Dissemination
- content is still going up on our project website
- posted to this project blog
- engaged (via Twitter) with national cultural heritage managers, other managers from the JISC e-Content and digitisation programme and experts in digitisation and user-generated content
- answered enquiries, in particular from managers setting up some very different bids for funding from the JISC Developing Community Content call
- used Delicious to link to interesting material online (you can see the latest links and Twitter conversations in the side margin of this blog)
Community Contributed Collection software (CoCoCo)
- started further development of the open-source CoCoCo software which facilitates the online collection of digital objects
Exemplar community collection
- started to work with the exemplar project – Project Woruldhord – which will run a community collection based around the study and teaching of Anglo-Saxon history and literature and language
In addition to planned work, we have assisted the JISC Funding Board reach their decision about the rapid user innovation strand of the Developing Community Content call, and started to work with the Europeana online service.
Next month we will…
- continue planning for the 4 free training workshops to be held in Oxford and around the UK. First dates set for:
- Weds 5th May 2010, Oxford
- Weds 26th May 2010, Oxford
- publicise website and blog
- continue the recruitment of the project officer
- prepare RunCoCo contributions to the Beyond Borders conference and the JISC Conference
- meet with some of the Europeana marketing and technical team
- meet Chris Wild, from The Retroscope
- start to write training documentation for dissemination at the training workshops
We’ll use this blog to let you know about our training documentation and workshops, and any other news.