This month RunCoCo met with Dr Stuart Lee, the lead for the exemplar – Project Woruldhord – who will be trialling our training material, our training workshops and user-testing our processes and most importantly the CoCoCo software.

The feast of William the Conqueror, detail from the Bayeux Tapestry

It’s an interesting challenge meeting a new project team. Getting to know their vision, managing expectations and answering challenging questions we had not thought would come up. Stuart has written about the meeting in his new project blog, where he’ll be reflecting on the exemplar project’s work with RunCoCo. I think the meeting was made more simple in some ways, Stuart was PI for The Great War Archive community collection initiative, so knows what he’s talking about. However, this also meant that I approached the discussion with more trepidation than I think I would normally feel before meeting a new project lead. Stuart is also director of our department. Always best not to screw up in front of the boss!

Image: from Wikimedia Commons.