RunCoCo blog
This is the official blog of RunCoCo – a service based at the Academic IT Services, University of Oxford. We work with community collection and crowdsourcing projects and offer advice, training, and support to those looking for new ways of working with the public for impact, outreach, and engagement. For more information about our work, the projects we are involved with and the training and support we provide, please visit our website: http://runcoco.oucs.ox.ac.uk/
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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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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How do you encourage the public to take part in your community collection project? – Welsh Voices of The Great War Online
Dr Gethin Matthews is wrestling with this problem, as he runs the JISC-funded project, Welsh Voices of The Great War Online. At the RunCoCo workshop on 27 July Gethin explained how he is trying to get people to come to … Continue reading
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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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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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