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/
RunCoCo on Tour
Yesterday the RunCoCo team left the dreaming spires of Oxford in bright sunshine, and floral fireworks – magnolia and other blossoms. Today we have been training about 25 German librarians who are partnering the German National Library (die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek … Continue reading
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Europeana crowdsourcing memories in Germany
The German National Library (die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek – DNB) launches a new crowdsourcing project today, “Erster Weltkrieg in Alltagsdokumenten” (The First World War in everyday documents). Online, anyone can submit family memories and photos of letters, postcards and studio portraits … Continue reading
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How musical are you? New BBC experiment
The BBC is offering you a chance to explore your musicality while at the same time helping scientists with their research. ‘How musical are you?’, the latest addition to the BBC UK Lab crowd sourcing website, is looking at people’s … Continue reading
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The Great War Archive extends in to Germany
The RunCoCo team are really excited to finally announce… …that in 2011 the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (the German National Library) and the Europeana Foundation will collect family memories and images from the general public in Germany that relate to the First … Continue reading
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Milky Way – new Zooniverse site
Do you want to explore the Milky Way? Now you can do that while at the same time helping astronomers with their research. The Milky Way project aims to sort and measure our galaxy, the Milky Way, by examining infrared … Continue reading
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My Leicestershire Digital Archive
My Leicestershire Digital Archive is a collaborative project bringing together digital resources relating to the history of Leicestershire and make these available online. Project partners include University of Leicester Library, the East Midlands Oral History Archive, the Media Archive for … Continue reading
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Crime report
Last week Melissa Highton (RunCoCo’s director) attended the academic advisory group of the Mapping Crime project. (RunCoCo blogged about the previous meeting in May 2010.) With this project the Bodleian Library is providing links between the crime material available through … Continue reading
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19th century children’s hospital records
The Historic Hospital Admission Registers Project (HHARP) is a useful example of how volunteers can help make material that would otherwise be hidden from most users widely available online. As further shown below, it is also a good case study … Continue reading
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Speaking at the Flemish Parliament
Alun Edwards, manager of RunCoCo, is speaking at the European Congress on E Inclusion 2010 ‘Delivering Digital Europe in Public Libraries’, 20-21 September 2010. ECEI10 is an invitation-only meeting for about 250 delegates to be held in the Flemish Parliament, … Continue reading
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Transcribe Bentham
Transcribe Bentham is inviting participants to what they call “the first major crowdsourcing transcription project”. The Transcribe Bentham Project, based at University College London, has produced digital images of a large selection of original and unstudied manuscript papers written by … Continue reading
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