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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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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80% of people who use archives are family historians
There’s a drive in the US to make October “family history month“, and tweets from this week’s OCLC special meeting “Moving the Past into the Future: Special Collections in a Digital Age” declared… “80% of people who use archives are … 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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What’s your message? RunCoCo’s crowdsourcing lessons from The Great War Archive
It’s academic conference season. You know what you are going to say – but how do you coach someone else to deliver your message? This post looks at some of the conferences we’ve spoken at and what RunCoCo‘s message has … 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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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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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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