Delicious links

RunCoCo is leading a number of workshops and making presentations in May. We’re circulating the links to resources mentioned during our talk using Delicious – tagging this material RuncocoProject/workshoplinks.

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Free Community Collections Workshop: Oxford

Registration is now open for the free RunCoCo workshop: How to Run a Community Collection Online on Weds 26 May 2010 in Oxford. This training workshop is free of charge and open to anyone from the education/public sector who is … Continue reading →

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Make: Open

On Tuesday 11 May 12:30-13:30, at OUCS, RunCoCo will present about the creative uses of technology in research and teaching to Make: Open i.e. make a crowd work for your project.

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Update Apr-May 2010

In April we have… interviewed some extremely skilled candidates for the RunCoCo project officer, and have successfully appointed someone, just waiting for that person to start Training workshops We have been planning for 2 free workshops: Weds 5th May 2010, … Continue reading →

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JISC 2010 conference

RunCoCo is presenting at the JISC 2010 conference in London (12-13 April) as part of the Community collections and the power of the crowd panel. Even if you are unable to attend you can follow the conference online and on … Continue reading →

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How to evaluate the worth of a community archive initiative?

RunCoCo has just had an interesting meeting with a Phd student from UCL (‘We think, not I think’: Harnessing collaborative creativity to archival practice; implications of user participation for archival theory and practice [PDF]). Links to draw between ideas we’ve … Continue reading →

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Update Mar-Apr 2010

In March we have…

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JISC announces Community Content Call: Strand I winners

Congratulations to the five projects that will be funded under the JISC 13/09 call for Community Content, Strand I (rapid innovation for existing resources): Digitizing data for disparate communities: Naval history and climate science, Dr Chris Lintott, University of Oxford … Continue reading →

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