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 be sent as soon as possible.

Os hoffech gofrestru drwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg, anfonwch e-bost at anwene@culturenetcymru.com

View of Aberystwyth from the NLW

This training workshop is organised by RunCoCo and Culturenet Cymru. It is free of charge and open to participants who are interested in community collections (like The Great War Archive and Community Archives Wales) or working to harness a community to enrich an existing collection with tags or comments (like Galaxy Zoo and the Zooniverse). The workshop will:

• Be a chance for managers, volunteers, and others from community collection projects to share best practice and exchange knowledge, in particular we hope to attract a mixture of delegates from long-running community projects as well as, for example, newer projects like those funded under the recent JISC calls for developing community content;
• Provide you with details of the processes, open-source software and results of The Great War Archive, a pilot community collection project based at University of Oxford, which ran for 3 months in 2008;
• Focus primarily on engaging a community, face-to-face or online;
• Be an opportunity to hear from a number of projects such as Galaxy Zoo and Community Archives Wales, as well as Culturenet Cymru and new initiatives like Citizen Science and The People’s Collection.

The meeting will be held 10.15am – 4.45pm, at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3BU. Lunch and other refreshments will be provided free-of-charge.

Travel and Accommodation

If required, you should arrange your own overnight accommodation. For example, a single-room sharing facilities in a self-catering flat on the nearby campus of Aberystwyth University for the night of the 26th July is available at a rate of £23.50 per room per night. You can arrange your own accommodation with the University accommodation office. Breakfast and evening meals are available on the campus.

For delegates staying overnight on 26 July, before the workshop, we will arrange an optional informal evening meal. Details to be arranged.

Some travel information is available on the National Library conference facilities page, and the University Travel page.

Aberystwyth location

Registration

Workshops are free of charge and open to anyone from the education/public sector from the education/public sector, the voluntary sector and the consultants that work with them.

Places are limited, so please complete our form on SurveyMonkey by 1200pm on 12 July 2010. Confirmation of your place will be sent as soon as possible. Os hoffech gofrestru drwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg, anfonwch e-bost at anwene@culturenetcymru.com.