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Crime report
Last week Melissa Highton (RunCoCo’s director) attended the academic advisory group of the Mapping Crime project. (RunCoCo blogged about the previous meeting in May 2010.) With this project the Bodleian Library is providing links between the crime material available through … 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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19th century children’s hospital records
The Historic Hospital Admission Registers Project (HHARP) is a useful example of how volunteers can help make material that would otherwise be hidden from most users widely available online. As further shown below, it is also a good case study … Continue reading
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Workshop speaker: Beccy Shipman
We are very pleased to announce that the RunCoCo event on November 3, 2010 will feature a presentation by Beccy Shipman, project manager of the LIFE-SHARE project. The title of the talk is Library seeks partner, must have GSOH… Collaborative … 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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Workshop speaker: Leigh Garrett
We are very pleased to announce that Leigh Garrett, Director of the Visual Arts Data Service, will be speaking at the forthcoming RunCoCo workshop in Leeds (Nov 3). Leigh will be sharing with us findings from the Look here! project … 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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Workshop speaker: Chris Wild
We are very pleased to announce that Chris Wild, The Retronaut is one of the speakers at the forthcoming RunCoCo workshop in Leeds (Nov 3). According to Chris, a Retronaut is “someone who goes back in time using just perception”. … Continue reading
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