Registration is now open for the free RunCoCo workshop: How to Run a Community Collection Online on Weds 26 May 2010 in Oxford.
This training workshop is free of charge and open to anyone from the education/public sector who is interested in community collections (like The Great War Archive) or working to harness a community to enrich an existing collection with tags or comments (like Galaxy Zoo). The workshop will:
- Be a chance for managers and others from community collection projects to share best practice and exchange knowledge, in particular we hope to attract a mixture of delegates from long-running community projects as well as, for example, newer projects like those funded under the recent JISC calls for developing community content;
- Provide you with details of the processes, open-source software and results of The Great War Archive, a pilot community collection project based at OUCS and the English Faculty, which ran for 3 months in 2008.
- Be an opportunity to hear from a number of projects such as Citizen Science, 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. The JISC Strategic Content Alliance will lead a Q&A surgery on the issues surrounding copyright and IPR.
The meeting will be held 10.00am – 5.00pm, at OUCS, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX26NN. Lunch and other refreshments will be provided free-of-charge.
See the OUCS Travel page for maps and further information about visiting OUCS.
Workshops are free of charge and open to anyone from the education/public sector.
Places are limited, so please register your interest by completing our form on SurveyMonkey by 1200 on 14 May 2010. Confirmation of your place will be sent ASAP.