The Woruldhord project opened its online submission site to public contributions this weekend. On Tuesday afternoon, an article about the project appeared in the Guardian. The article describes the project and what it is setting out to do (“collect together … Continue reading →

A new government crowdsourcing initiative was launched on July 1:  Your Freedom. This time we are invited to participate to “create a more open and less intrusive society” by suggesting “ideas for removing laws and regulations”. The way it works … Continue reading →

The new budget was launched this week and, as expected, cuts are called for in many areas. Also called for, although not in the budget as such,  is public engagement in issues related to the budget. The Spending Challenge In … Continue reading →

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) has launched a new digitisation program to help members who want to have material transcribed and encoded, (as reported in the JISC Digitisation blog). Through the AccessTEI program, members can submit documents in different formats, … Continue reading →

That question was asked on Wednesday by Dr Mark Sheehan, Oxford BRC Ethics Fellow at the Ethox Centre and a James Martin Research Fellow in the Program of Ethics of the New Biosciences, in a talk at the James Martin … Continue reading →

AddressingHistory is an interesting example of how a project can use good, digitised material and community engagement to produce new resources. The project, run by Edina in partnership with the National Library of Scotland, is creating an online tool for … Continue reading →