Engaging talks in Aberystwyth

Yesterday, Culturenet Cymru played host to the latest RunCoCo workshop, at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth (27 July 2010). We welcomed about 30 delegates to the excellent conference facilities of the National Library. As the dust settles we are … Continue reading →

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Audience Analysis

RunCoCo is working closely with the Alliance (JISC Strategic Content Alliance) to put on workshops this year for community collection projects. We have put some presentations online from events in May – which included an insightful session on IPR and copyright … Continue reading →

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Sustainability Workshop, Leeds

We are currently planning a RunCoCo workshop in Leeds, November 3rd 2010, putting together an exciting programme around the topic of sustainability and business models for community collection projects. If you would like to be involved as a presenter or … 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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Community engagement problems SOLVED

Is there a community engagement issue you would like some help to solve? Or do you want feedback on a piece of work? We want to give you the opportunity to harness the expertise and knowledge of the speakers and … Continue reading →

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Your Freedom – more government crowdsourcing

A new government crowdsourcing initiative was launched on July 1:  Your Freedom. This time we are invited to participate to “create a more open and less intrusive society” by suggesting “ideas for removing laws and regulations”. The way it works … Continue reading →

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Ubiquitous Crowdsourcing

There’s a workshop on Ubiquitous Crowdsourcing at the UbiComp 2010 conference (26-29 September 2010, Copenhagen). The deadline for submitting online abstracts for the workshop is July 15 (and July 22 for the paper itself): “In this workshop we will discuss … Continue reading →

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