It’s been a while since we wrote an update for the progress of the project, mainly because of a combination of being too busy and some sick/holiday leave.

In June-August we have…

Training workshops

We ran a free ‘engaging with your community’ workshop on Tues 27th July 2010, Aberystwyth (programme and links to resources). We’ve also been putting together an exciting programme around the topic of sustainability and business models for community collection projects for our final RunCoCo training event, to be held on November 3 at the University of Leeds. More details about the event will be published on the website in due course, and registration for delegates will open soon.

Dissemination

• spoke at the International Blended Learning Conference, University of Hertfordshire, (blog post).
• attended the launch of the John Johnson Collection: An Archive of printed Ephemera in the Divinity School, at the Bodleian Library
• 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 now running projects funded 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)
• collaborated in an unsuccessful bid to Europeana, but continue to discuss a number of potential activities in Europe
• prepared to speak at a number of events in the UK and on the continent about The Great War Archive and RunCoCo.

Community Contributed Collection software (CoCoCo)

• development continues of the open-source CoCoCo software which is currently being tested live by the Woruldhord exemplar project

Exemplar community collection

Worked with the exemplar project – Woruldhord who launched their community collection on 1 July.

Next month we will…

• continue development of the CoCoCo software
• continue working with the exemplar project (with Dr Stuart Lee)
• submit plans for work in Europe with Europeana
• continue writing training documentation.

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