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/
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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Open Plaques Open Day
The Open Plaques project is holding an open day workshop in London on September 25th, 2010. The free event will include presentations about the project and a practical session where the participants look at how the project can be developed … Continue reading
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Building participatory archives
In a recent post on her blog ArchivesNext, Kate Theimer discusses the work she is preparing on ‘participatory archives’. What I’m working on now is exploring ideas about what it means to build “participatory archives.” The concept draws upon the … Continue reading
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Cross-searching workshop in Bristol
The Visualising China Project is hosting a one-day workshop at the ILRT in Bristol on Tuesday 21st September, with presentations and discussion on the topic of cross-searching distributed, interrelated, online resources. The workshop will tackle topics such as harvesting protocols … Continue reading
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Invent it! at the British Library
The British Library is calling on us to come up with problems. Not just any problems but specifically those that we would like to see the next generation of inventors solve. For their Invent it! campaign the British Library are … Continue reading
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Strandlines Digital Communities
Can you run a community collection where there is little sense of community? The Strandlines Digital Communities is a new project that is determined to do just that. The focus of the project is the Strand, one of the most … Continue reading
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A day in your life – community group event
12 August 2010 will be a day that is remembered even if nothing particularly remarkable or memorable happens on the day. This is due to an initiative by the Mass Observation Communities Online (MOCO) project. The MOCO project are inviting … Continue reading
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Digital Content Quarterly
Digital Content Quarterly is a magazine published in print and online by the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA): “an initiative created to support citizens in gaining best value from the public investment made in digital content”. The Strategic Content Alliance works … Continue reading
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London Citizen Cyberscience Summit
The London Citizen Cyberscience Summit is a two-day event being held at King’s College, London on September 2-3, 2010. From the event webpage: “The London Citizen Cyberscience Summit is a great chance for scientists and citizens to learn about the … Continue reading
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Archives Outside: not only for archivists
The Archives Outside blog describes itself as a meeting place for people who care for archival collections in New South Wales and researchers who wish to access them. As such, it may be easy to think that is may not … Continue reading
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