RunCoCo blog
This is the official blog of RunCoCo – a service based at the Academic IT Services, University of Oxford. We work with community collection and crowdsourcing projects and offer advice, training, and support to those looking for new ways of working with the public for impact, outreach, and engagement. For more information about our work, the projects we are involved with and the training and support we provide, please visit our website: http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
Curiouser & Curiouser
Spring may feel far away on a bleak November day but it doesn’t mean we cannot look ahead and plan for things to come. Curiouser & Curiouser : Challenging Convention and Celebrating the Unusual in Museums and Heritage is a … Continue reading
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JISC: Digital Content Partnerships
The JISC e-Content Programme currently has two funding calls: JISC Grant Funding 11/10: eContent Programme and JISC Grant Funding 16/10: Rapid Digitisation, both with submission deadline on December 10, 2010 – a deadline that is fast approaching. The 11/10 eContent … Continue reading
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BBC gallery: Welsh Voices of the Great War Online
For Armistice Day 2010, BBC Wales published a slideshow of images from the Welsh Voices of the Great War Online collection. The 26 images in the slideshow were selected from the growing collection being gathered by the Welsh Voices project. … Continue reading
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AddressingHistory launch event
The JISC-funded AddressingHistory project is having its official launch on November 17 2010. The event will take place in the National Library of Scotland and the programme features a range of exciting talks related to Scottish history by projects that … Continue reading
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RunCoCo workshop on sustainability
The fourth RunCoCo workshop took place in Leeds on November 3rd, 2010. A group of 30 people gathered to learn about, discuss, and share experiences of online community collection work and sustainability. Material from the day is being published on … Continue reading
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Sustainability for Digital Content
We are very pleased to welcome Sarah Fahmy (Strategic Content Alliance) and Alastair Dunning (JISC) to the RunCoCo workshop in Leeds on November 3rd 2010. Sarah and Alastair will be leading an interactive session on Sustainability for Digital Content. This … Continue reading
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Building digital preservation into community collecting
At the RunCoCo workshop in Leeds, 3rd Nov, we will have the pleasure of a presentation by Lisa Greenhalgh from OurStories, based at West Yorkshire Archive Service . The Our Stories project aims to deliver a self-sustaining support network, training … Continue reading
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Workshop speaker: Kate Lindsay
The RunCoCo project builds on the work done on the Great War Archive project. We are very pleased to be able to welcome the project manager for the Great War Archive project Kate Lindsay among the speakers at the RunCoCo … Continue reading
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Developing online resources course
GEM (Group for Education in Museums) is organising a training day on October 18 2010 on the theme Developing Online Resources. Planning, evaluating, creating and testing online resources including for whiteboards. GEM website The event is held at the Fleet … Continue reading
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19th century children’s hospital records
The Historic Hospital Admission Registers Project (HHARP) is a useful example of how volunteers can help make material that would otherwise be hidden from most users widely available online. As further shown below, it is also a good case study … Continue reading
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