In May we have…

Staffing

• appointed the RunCoCo project officer, Ylva Berglund-Prytz, and wished good luck to the project PI Kate Lindsay, who has gone on maternity leave

Training workshops

We ran 2 free workshops:

• Weds 5th May 2010, Oxford – for Oxford projects (programme and links to resources)
• Weds 26th May 2010, Oxford, open to all (programme and links to resources)

We’ve been planning our two further RunCoCo training events, the next will be in Aberystwyth on 27 July.

Dissemination

• presented at a JISC e-Content programme meeting
• presented a RunCoCo course Make: Open (Crowding together) in Oxford
• prepared for filming about the impact of The Great War Archive community collection for JISC
• took part 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
• took part in an advisory board meeting for the Mapping Crime project
• met with Chris Wild from The Retroscope
• adverts for Oxford internal publications, OUCS news and the University of Oxford Blueprint, were published and we displayed two posters during Oxford Artweeks
• contributed to discussions on the Google Group (set-up 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, as well as discussing a number of potential activities in Europe

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

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 setting-up their use of the CoCoCo software, as well as ensuring they have a server correctly configured, and user-documentation on their new website.

Next month we will…

• complete development of the CoCoCo software
• continue working with the exemplar project (with Dr Stuart Lee)
• submit the collaboratively-written bid to Europeana
• continue writing training documentation.

We use this blog to let you know about our training documentation and workshops, and any other news.