Mapping Crime

This week RunCoCo took part in a project board meeting for Mapping Crime. We were offering some expertise in user-generated content but particularly in user-engagement, to the project manager David Tomkins. This project will see the Bodleian Library map between … Continue reading →

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Project staffing changes

RunCoCo is a very small team. Indeed as I (Alun Edwards – the project manager) walk around our building here in Oxford I get called ‘Mr RunCoCo’! All that should change as I am very pleased to announce that Dr … Continue reading →

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A time traveller visits

Chris Wild, the self-styled Retronaut, visited RunCoCo in Oxford. This meeting has taken almost 6 months to arrange as for a number of (sometimes comedic) reasons all our previous engagements have fallen through. Today, Chris gave us an insight into … Continue reading →

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The end of civilization?

A fascinating report on RunCoCo’s Oxford meeting on 5 May, has been written by Chris Batt OBE, one of the speakers: ChB:PhD. How do you feel about crowdsourcing, co-creation and community engagement? Does the thought of involving outside folks in … Continue reading →

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Oxford community collections meeting

On Weds 5 May 2010 RunCoCo hosted a meeting of Oxford-based community collections and similar projects, as well as other experts with an interest in community contributed digitisation, crowdsourcing and community enriching of an existing collection with tags or comments. … Continue reading →

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JISC announces Community Content Call: Strand II winners

Congratulations to the five projects that will be funded under the JISC Grant 13/09: BCE, e-Content & Digitisation call for Community Content, Strand II (developing community content aims to build new digital collections, or transform existing collections through genuine co-creation … Continue reading →

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