Update Apr-May 2010

interviewed some extremely skilled candidates for the RunCoCo project officer, and have successfully appointed someone, just waiting for that person to start

Training workshops

We have been planning for 2 free workshops:

Weds 5th May 2010, Oxford – for Oxford projects
Weds 26th May 2010, Oxford, open to all – registration is open until 1200 on 14 May 2010
We’ve been in touch with a number of community collection projects (e.g. Galaxy Zoo and East London Lives 2012), as well as Dr Andrew Flinn, UCL and Chris Batt OBE, author of Digitisation, Curation and Two-Way Engagement, and the JISC Strategic Content Alliance, potential speakers for the workshops.

Beyond Borders conference: The place of research institutions in open education

Dissemination

presented at the JISC 2010 Conference
met with a Phd candidate from UCL to discuss community archive intitiatives
presented a poster at the international Beyond Borders open education conference, and for the Learning Technologies Group of Oxford University we ‘live’ blogged and ‘live’ tweeted
written 2 adverts for Oxford internal publications, OUCS news and the University of Oxford Blueprint, as well as prepared a poster for Oxford Artweeks
set-up a Google Group as a forum for community collection projects to communicate online
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)
continue to collaborate in the writing of a bid to Europeana

Community Contributed Collection software (CoCoCo)

development continues of the open-source CoCoCo software which facilitates the online collection of digital objects

Exemplar community collection

Worked with the exemplar project – Woruldhord mainly on metadata for their collecting of learning objects.

RunCoCo present about "Crowding together" Tue 11 May12:30-13:30, OUCS

complete development of the CoCoCo software
undertake the induction of the new project officer
prepare and deliver a RunCoCo course Make: Open (Crowding together) on Tuesday 11 May 12:30-13:30, at OUCS
participate in the first meeting of a new OUCS SIG (special interest group) to look at how IT can assist with impact, widening participation and outreach activities of the university
meet Chris Wild, from The Retroscope, one day our calendars must coincide!
continue working with the exemplar project (with Dr Stuart Lee)
host and run the first 2 RunCoCo training workshops
collaborate in the writing of a bid to Europeana
start to write training documentation for dissemination at the free training workshops to be held in Oxford and around the UK.

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