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/
A time traveller visits
Chris Wild, the self-styled Retronaut, visited RunCoCo in Oxford. This meeting has taken almost 6 months to arrange as for a number of (sometimes comedic) reasons all our previous engagements have fallen through. Today, Chris gave us an insight into … Continue reading
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The end of civilization?
A fascinating report on RunCoCo’s Oxford meeting on 5 May, has been written by Chris Batt OBE, one of the speakers: ChB:PhD. How do you feel about crowdsourcing, co-creation and community engagement? Does the thought of involving outside folks in … Continue reading
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Oxford community collections meeting
On Weds 5 May 2010 RunCoCo hosted a meeting of Oxford-based community collections and similar projects, as well as other experts with an interest in community contributed digitisation, crowdsourcing and community enriching of an existing collection with tags or comments. … Continue reading
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JISC announces Community Content Call: Strand II winners
Congratulations to the five projects that will be funded under the JISC Grant 13/09: BCE, e-Content & Digitisation call for Community Content, Strand II (developing community content aims to build new digital collections, or transform existing collections through genuine co-creation … Continue reading
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Delicious links
RunCoCo is leading a number of workshops and making presentations in May. We’re circulating the links to resources mentioned during our talk using Delicious – tagging this material RuncocoProject/workshoplinks.
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Free Community Collections Workshop: Oxford
Registration is now open for the free RunCoCo workshop: How to Run a Community Collection Online on Weds 26 May 2010 in Oxford. This training workshop is free of charge and open to anyone from the education/public sector who is … Continue reading
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Make: Open
On Tuesday 11 May 12:30-13:30, at OUCS, RunCoCo will present about the creative uses of technology in research and teaching to Make: Open i.e. make a crowd work for your project.
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Update Apr-May 2010
In April we have… interviewed some extremely skilled candidates for the RunCoCo project officer, and have successfully appointed someone, just waiting for that person to start Training workshops We have been planning for 2 free workshops: Weds 5th May 2010, … Continue reading
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JISC 2010 conference
RunCoCo is presenting at the JISC 2010 conference in London (12-13 April) as part of the Community collections and the power of the crowd panel. Even if you are unable to attend you can follow the conference online and on … Continue reading
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How to evaluate the worth of a community archive initiative?
RunCoCo has just had an interesting meeting with a Phd student from UCL (‘We think, not I think’: Harnessing collaborative creativity to archival practice; implications of user participation for archival theory and practice [PDF]). Links to draw between ideas we’ve … Continue reading
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