Workshops: Maximising online presence

From  Strategic Content Alliance and JISC NetSkills: The Strategic Content Alliance and JISC NetSkills are holding a series of free, two-day workshops on ‘Maximising the effectiveness of your online presence’ in: Belfast, 14 September 2010- 15 September 2010: Glasgow, 7th … Continue reading →

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Transcribe Bentham

Transcribe Bentham is inviting participants to what they call “the first major crowdsourcing transcription project”. The Transcribe Bentham Project, based at University College London, has produced digital images of a large selection of  original and unstudied manuscript papers written by … Continue reading →

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Register now for RunCoCo workshop on sustainability

Registration is now open for the free RunCoCo workshop on sustainability, which will be taking place in Leeds on November 3, 2010. We look forward to welcoming participants who are interested in community collections or working to harness a community … Continue reading →

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Post-summit thoughts

(This is a report from the Citizen Cyberscience Summit which we have written about in a previous blog posts.) On September 2-3, some 50 people gathered in the Anatomy Theatre in King’s College, London for two intense day filled with … Continue reading →

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Rare But Not Old

RunCoCo will be speaking at ‘Rare but not Old’: Curating Modern Special Collections, the annual conference of the CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group, 8-9 September 2010 at Lancaster University. We will be speaking about Using the community (real … Continue reading →

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Communities remember Scotland at War

Recently Museums Galleries Scotland launched the website Remembering Scotland at War, the result of a three-year collaboration with museums and galleries across Scotland funded by the Big Lottery Fund. Most interesting from the perspective of the RunCoCo project is the … Continue reading →

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Woruldhord is Making History

Dr Stuart Lee appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Making History programme, to talk about Oxford University’s Project Woruldhord, a community collection which asks the public to submit items related to the study of the Anglo-Saxons or Old English. For more … Continue reading →

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Update June-August 2010

It’s been a while since we wrote an update for the progress of the project, mainly because of a combination of being too busy and some sick/holiday leave. In June-August we have… Training workshops We ran a free ‘engaging with … Continue reading →

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London Citizen Cyberscience Summit (2)

RunCoCo will be attending the London Citizen Cyberscience Summit which is on from Thursday 2 September – Friday 3. (more about the event in a separate blog post). If you cannot attend, you may be interested in following the live … Continue reading →

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