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Voluntary sector and consultants welcome
We welcome delegates from the voluntary sector and the education and public sectors, as well as the private consultants that work with these to the free RunCoCo workshop: How to Run a Community Collection Online on Tues 27 July 2010 … Continue reading
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New discussion list – Woruldhord
A new Google Group has been set up to discuss Oxford University’s Project Woruldhord. This is a community collection project where the public (from any nation) are asked to submit items related to the study of the Anglo-Saxons or Old … Continue reading
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The Budget Challenge
The new budget was launched this week and, as expected, cuts are called for in many areas. Also called for, although not in the budget as such, is public engagement in issues related to the budget. The Spending Challenge In … Continue reading
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AccessTEI: discounted digitisation / transcription service
The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) has launched a new digitisation program to help members who want to have material transcribed and encoded, (as reported in the JISC Digitisation blog). Through the AccessTEI program, members can submit documents in different formats, … Continue reading
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Free Community Collections Workshop: Aberystwyth
Registration is now open for the free RunCoCo workshop: How to Run a Community Collection Online on Tues 27 July 2010 in Aberystwyth. To register please complete our form by 12noon on 12 July 2010. Confirmation of your place will … Continue reading
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Why should we include patients and the public in research?
That question was asked on Wednesday by Dr Mark Sheehan, Oxford BRC Ethics Fellow at the Ethox Centre and a James Martin Research Fellow in the Program of Ethics of the New Biosciences, in a talk at the James Martin … Continue reading
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Blended Learning
Speaking today at the International Blended Learning Conference, University of Hertfordshire. (You may follow this on Twitter #iblc10). Presentation slides will be made available soon. Here’s the abstract: “Community Collections: Of the people, for the people, by the people. You … Continue reading
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Ephemera on radio
The Bodleian Library online resource the John Johnson Collection: An Archive of Printed Ephemera was talked about on Radio 4’s Saturday Review (12 June 2010 from 21.00-30.00 mins through the programme). This will be available online on the BBC i-Player … Continue reading
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AddressingHistory
AddressingHistory is an interesting example of how a project can use good, digitised material and community engagement to produce new resources. The project, run by Edina in partnership with the National Library of Scotland, is creating an online tool for … Continue reading
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Update May-June 2010
In May we have… Staffing appointed the RunCoCo project officer, Ylva Berglund-Prytz, and wished good luck to the project PI Kate Lindsay, who has gone on maternity leave Training workshops We ran 2 free workshops: Weds 5th May 2010, Oxford … Continue reading
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