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/
Communities remember Scotland at War
Recently Museums Galleries Scotland launched the website Remembering Scotland at War, the result of a three-year collaboration with museums and galleries across Scotland funded by the Big Lottery Fund. Most interesting from the perspective of the RunCoCo project is the … Continue reading
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Woruldhord is Making History
Dr Stuart Lee appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Making History programme, to talk about Oxford University’s Project Woruldhord, a community collection which asks the public to submit items related to the study of the Anglo-Saxons or Old English. For more … Continue reading
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How do you encourage the public to take part in your community collection project? – Welsh Voices of The Great War Online
Dr Gethin Matthews is wrestling with this problem, as he runs the JISC-funded project, Welsh Voices of The Great War Online. At the RunCoCo workshop on 27 July Gethin explained how he is trying to get people to come to … Continue reading
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Open Plaques Open Day
The Open Plaques project is holding an open day workshop in London on September 25th, 2010. The free event will include presentations about the project and a practical session where the participants look at how the project can be developed … Continue reading
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Building participatory archives
In a recent post on her blog ArchivesNext, Kate Theimer discusses the work she is preparing on ‘participatory archives’. What I’m working on now is exploring ideas about what it means to build “participatory archives.” The concept draws upon the … Continue reading
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Cross-searching workshop in Bristol
The Visualising China Project is hosting a one-day workshop at the ILRT in Bristol on Tuesday 21st September, with presentations and discussion on the topic of cross-searching distributed, interrelated, online resources. The workshop will tackle topics such as harvesting protocols … Continue reading
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Invent it! at the British Library
The British Library is calling on us to come up with problems. Not just any problems but specifically those that we would like to see the next generation of inventors solve. For their Invent it! campaign the British Library are … Continue reading
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Strandlines Digital Communities
Can you run a community collection where there is little sense of community? The Strandlines Digital Communities is a new project that is determined to do just that. The focus of the project is the Strand, one of the most … Continue reading
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Archives Outside: not only for archivists
The Archives Outside blog describes itself as a meeting place for people who care for archival collections in New South Wales and researchers who wish to access them. As such, it may be easy to think that is may not … Continue reading
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Community collection in the news
The Woruldhord project opened its online submission site to public contributions this weekend. On Tuesday afternoon, an article about the project appeared in the Guardian. The article describes the project and what it is setting out to do (“collect together … Continue reading
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