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/
Update Mar-Apr 2010
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JISC announces Community Content Call: Strand I winners
Congratulations to the five projects that will be funded under the JISC 13/09 call for Community Content, Strand I (rapid innovation for existing resources): Digitizing data for disparate communities: Naval history and climate science, Dr Chris Lintott, University of Oxford … Continue reading
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Meeting of Oxford-based Community Collections
Weds 5 May 2010 RunCoCo will host a meeting of projects based in and around Oxford who share an interest in community contributed digitisation, crowdsourcing and community enriching of an existing collection with tags or comments. This meeting is free … Continue reading
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Update Feb-Mar 2010
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Job opportunity
RunCoCo is recruiting a Project Officer (part-time, fixed-term). Details and an application form are available from Oxford University Computing Services, where the job will be based. Completed applications must be received by 12 noon on 26th March 2010, and interviews … Continue reading
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Europeana.eu
RunCoCo is working with Europeana.eu, an EU-funded portal to digital objects, images, text, sound and film on the Internet. Europeana are moving ahead with plans for user-generated-content and community collections. Initially, we will meet their developers to try to ‘brain-dump’ … Continue reading
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Woruldhord first moot
This month RunCoCo met with Dr Stuart Lee, the lead for the exemplar – Project Woruldhord – who will be trialling our training material, our training workshops and user-testing our processes and most importantly the CoCoCo software. It’s an interesting … Continue reading
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JISC funding reinstated for ‘co-developing’ community content
The details are a little sketchy but JISC announces today that the formerly stalled invitation for proposals for Co-development of Content is open again, closing date 15 March. This is the Strand II of the Grant 13/09: BCE, e-Content & … Continue reading
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Update Jan-Feb 2010
The RunCoCo project began this month. We’re going to train other institutions in the experiences of The Great War Archive, part of the First World War Poetry Digital Archive, and show them how they can replicate the process for community … Continue reading
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From The Great War Archive to RunCoCo
RunCoCo is a new project based at the University of Oxford which will share online best practice and experience of running in 2008 a successful community contributed collection of digital objects, The Great War Archive, and offer free training and … Continue reading
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