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/
Workshop speaker: Beccy Shipman
We are very pleased to announce that the RunCoCo event on November 3, 2010 will feature a presentation by Beccy Shipman, project manager of the LIFE-SHARE project. The title of the talk is Library seeks partner, must have GSOH… Collaborative … Continue reading
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OpenCulture: collection management event
Registration is now open for the OpenCulture 2011, an annual collections management event. The event will take place in The Custard Factory in Birmingham on the 7th and 8th June 2011 and it is aimed at anyone who manages a collection: … Continue reading
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Speaking at the Flemish Parliament
Alun Edwards, manager of RunCoCo, is speaking at the European Congress on E Inclusion 2010 ‘Delivering Digital Europe in Public Libraries’, 20-21 September 2010. ECEI10 is an invitation-only meeting for about 250 delegates to be held in the Flemish Parliament, … Continue reading
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Workshop speaker: Leigh Garrett
We are very pleased to announce that Leigh Garrett, Director of the Visual Arts Data Service, will be speaking at the forthcoming RunCoCo workshop in Leeds (Nov 3). Leigh will be sharing with us findings from the Look here! project … Continue reading
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GLAM-WIKI conference
Registration is now open for the GLAM-WIKI 2010 conference. The conference offers an opportunity for the UK and European gallery, library, archive and museum (GLAM) sector to meet with representatives from the Wikimedia community to “determine how to use the … Continue reading
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Workshop speaker: Chris Wild
We are very pleased to announce that Chris Wild, The Retronaut is one of the speakers at the forthcoming RunCoCo workshop in Leeds (Nov 3). According to Chris, a Retronaut is “someone who goes back in time using just perception”. … Continue reading
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Workshops: Maximising online presence
From Strategic Content Alliance and JISC NetSkills: The Strategic Content Alliance and JISC NetSkills are holding a series of free, two-day workshops on ‘Maximising the effectiveness of your online presence’ in: Belfast, 14 September 2010- 15 September 2010: Glasgow, 7th … Continue reading
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Transcribe Bentham
Transcribe Bentham is inviting participants to what they call “the first major crowdsourcing transcription project”. The Transcribe Bentham Project, based at University College London, has produced digital images of a large selection of original and unstudied manuscript papers written by … Continue reading
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Register now for RunCoCo workshop on sustainability
Registration is now open for the free RunCoCo workshop on sustainability, which will be taking place in Leeds on November 3, 2010. We look forward to welcoming participants who are interested in community collections or working to harness a community … Continue reading
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Post-summit thoughts
(This is a report from the Citizen Cyberscience Summit which we have written about in a previous blog posts.) On September 2-3, some 50 people gathered in the Anatomy Theatre in King’s College, London for two intense day filled with … Continue reading
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